Re: Brewster Angle

["John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>]

al brown wrote:
> This is to do with the Brewster Angle..I just want
> to be able to explain whats going on at a Microscopic level.

> Does anyone know how the dipole radiation at an interface with transvers
> magnetic light incident onto it interfer to produce a reflected beam which
> is highly directional.

1) It's better to say "highly polarized".  Highly "directional" means
something else.

2) Feynman volume I chapter 33, section 33-4 and especially
figure 33-4 discusses the special case of Brewster's angle.
The qualitative argument is powerful and memorable.

3) Feynman volume II chapter 33, section 33-4 gives
additional detail including all possible angles.
What a bizarre coincidence of numbers, a year apart....