Abstract

Thermodynamic entropy production and the increase of the number of degrees of freedom are studied, for a beam of thermal radiation, after scattering from a perfectly reflecting rough surface of the gaussian type.

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Smith–Purcell radiation from a line charge moving parallel to a reflection grating

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