Introduction

The technique of elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation has been used as a diagnostic tool in various disciplines of science, engineering, medicine, and agriculture. The investigations relating to above problems may be divided into three categories: (i) Scattering by a single particle, (ii) Scattering by a tenuous system of uncorrelated scatterers, and (iii) Scattering by a concentrated dispersion of scatterers.

In the proposed book, the primary effort is to examine the analytic solutions of the scattering problems of types (i) and (ii) in diverse backgrounds. For the completeness of the book, analytic solutions in scattering situations of type (iii) are also covered in reasonable details.