Abstract
SOMMERFELD1 has shown that in the study of the diffraction of electromagnetic waves at a sharp edge, account must be taken of the contribution to the diffracted field of the wave which is reflected at the edge. Because of the variation in boundary conditions at the edge for radiation linearly polarized in different planes, Sommerfeld deduced that the shadow cast by a sharp edge should be deepest for radiation polarized with the electric vector parallel to the edge.
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