John Lekner is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Victoria University of Wellington. He has a PhD from the University of Chicago, and has taught at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He has worked mainly in statistical physics, quantum mechanics and electrodynamics. He has published more than 140 papers, of which about 40 are reflection-related.

"The book is didactically well written and can serve as a useful literature for professionals as well as for graduate students in the considered fields. ... The appendix contains useful formulae for various quantities typically encountered in the wave transmission and reflection analyses." (Vladimir Cadez, zbMATH 1347.78002, 2016)

• From the Contents: Preface.- Introducing Reflection.- Exact Results.- Reflection of Long Waves.- Variational Theory.- Equations for the Reflection Amplitudes.- Reflection of Short Waves.- Anisotropy.- Absorption.- Inverse Problems.- Pulses, Finite Beams.

John Lekner is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Victoria University of Wellington. He has a PhD from the University of Chicago, and has taught at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He has worked mainly in statistical physics, quantum mechanics and electrodynamics. He has published more than 140 papers, of which about 40 are reflection-related.

"The book is didactically well written and can serve as a useful literature for professionals as well as for graduate students in the considered fields. ... The appendix contains useful formulae for various quantities typically encountered in the wave transmission and reflection analyses." (Vladimir Cadez, zbMATH 1347.78002, 2016)

• From the Contents: Preface.- Introducing Reflection.- Exact Results.- Reflection of Long Waves.- Variational Theory.- Equations for the Reflection Amplitudes.- Reflection of Short Waves.- Anisotropy.- Absorption.- Inverse Problems.- Pulses, Finite Beams.

John Lekner is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Victoria University of Wellington. He has a PhD from the University of Chicago, and has taught at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He has worked mainly in statistical physics, quantum mechanics and electrodynamics. He has published more than 140 papers, of which about 40 are reflection-related.

"The book is didactically well written and can serve as a useful literature for professionals as well as for graduate students in the considered fields. ... The appendix contains useful formulae for various quantities typically encountered in the wave transmission and reflection analyses." (Vladimir Cadez, zbMATH 1347.78002, 2016)

• From the Contents: Preface.- Introducing Reflection.- Exact Results.- Reflection of Long Waves.- Variational Theory.- Equations for the Reflection Amplitudes.- Reflection of Short Waves.- Anisotropy.- Absorption.- Inverse Problems.- Pulses, Finite Beams.