This book is an introduction to some of the most important properties of electromagnetic waves and their interaction with passive materials and scatterers. The main purpose of the book is to give a theoretical treatment of these scattering phenomena, and to illustrate numerical computations of some canonical scattering problems for different geometries and materials. The scattering theory is also important in the theory of passive antennas, and this book gives several examples on this topic.

'This fundamental (and in many respects encyclopedic) 755-page monograph was published as part of the "Mario Boella Series on Electromagnetism in Information and Communication" edited by P.L.E. Uslenghi. The main purpose of the book is systematic exposition of several important aspects of the electromagnetic scattering theory along with the presentation of the requisite mathematical apparatus and illustrative numerical results. What distinguishes this volume from the vast majority of related books is the extensive treatment of the time-domain scattering theory.'
-- Michael I. Mishchenko, NASA Goddard Institute for SpaceStudies, New York, USA

• Chapter 1: Basic Equations
• Chapter 2: The Green Functions and Dyadics
• Chapter 3: Integral Representation of Fields
• Chapter 4: Introductory Scattering Theory
• Chapter 5: Scattering in the Time Domain
• Chapter 6: Approximations and Applications
• Chapter 7: Spherical Vector Waves
• Chapter 8: Scattering by Spherical Objects
• Chapter 9: The Null-Field Approach
• Chapter 10: Propagation in Stratified Media
• Appendix A: Vectors and Linear Transformations
• Appendix B: Bessel Functions
• Appendix C: Spherical Harmonics
• Appendix D: The Fourier and Other Transforms
• Appendix E: Relativity
• Appendix F: Some Useful Mathematical Results
• Appendix G: Asymptotic Evaluation of Integrals
• Appendix H: The Nabla Operator in Curvilinear Coordinate Systems
• Appendix I: Notation
• Appendix J: Units and Constants