Glass Slide Reflectance from Vector Amplitudes

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Feynman [1]: "The situation today is, we haven't got a good model to explain partial reflection by two surfaces; we just calculate the probability that a particular photomultiplier will be hit by a photon reflected from a sheet of glass."
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Contributed by: Gha Young Lee (January 2015)
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[1] R. P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985.
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Published: January 21 2015