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/* Penetration Through Thin Walls Or Surfaces */
=== Penetration Through Thin Walls Or Surfaces ===
 
[[File:thinwalltrans.png|thumb|350px|The Incident and Transmitted Rays through a Thin Wall]]
In "Thin Wall Approximation", we assume that an incident ray gives rise to two rays, one is reflected at the specular point, and the other is transmitted almost in the same direction as the incident ray. The reflected ray is assumed to originate from a virtual image source point. Similar to the case of reflection and transmission at the interface between two dielectric media, here too we have three triplets of unit vectors, which all form orthonormal basis systems.
 
[[File:thinwalltrans.png]]
 
The Incident and Transmitted Rays through a Thin Wall
The transmission coefficients are calculated for the two parallel and perpendicular polarizations as:
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