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Let \begin_inset Formula $\beta$ \end_inset be the angle between the surface normal \begin_inset Formula $\uvec{\nu}$ \end_inset and the coordinate radial direction \begin_inset Formula $\uvec r$ \end_inset . The infinitesimal surface area element is then \begin_inset Formula \[ \ud S\left(\theta\right)=\frac{\left(r\left(\theta\right)\right)^{2}\sin\theta}{\cos\beta\left(\theta\right)}\ud\theta\,\ud\phi \] \end_inset and the surface normal in local coordinates \begin_inset Formula \[ \uvec{\nu}\left(\theta\right)=\uvec r\cos\beta\left(\theta\right)+\uvec{\theta}\sin\beta\left(\theta\right), \] \end_inset which also sets a convention for the sign of \begin_inset Formula $\beta$ \end_inset . \end_layout \begin_layout Standard For fully axially symmetric particles the integrals vanish for \begin_inset Formula $m\ne-m'$ \end_inset due to the \begin_inset Formula $e^{i\left(m+m'\right)}$ \end_inset asimuthal factor in the integrand. One then has \begin_inset Formula \begin{equation} T_{nn'}=-\sum_{n''}R'_{nn''}Q'_{n''n}^{-1}\label{eq:T-matrix from reduced R and Q} \end{equation} \end_inset where \begin_inset Formula \begin{align*} R'_{nn'} & =\int_{0}^{\pi}\left(\frac{\eta}{\eta_{1}}\wfkcreg_{n}\left(k\vect r\right)\times\wfkcreg_{\overline{n'}}\left(k_{1}\vect r\right)+\wfkcreg_{\overline{n}}\left(k\vect r\right)\times\wfkcreg_{n'}\left(k_{1}\vect r\right)\right)\cdot\left(\uvec r\cos\beta\left(\theta\right)+\uvec{\theta}\sin\beta\left(\theta\right)\right)\frac{\left(r\left(\theta\right)\right)^{2}\sin\theta}{\cos\beta\left(\theta\right)}\ud\theta,\\ Q'_{nn'} & =\int_{0}^{\pi}\left(\frac{\eta}{\eta_{1}}\wfkcreg_{n}\left(k\vect r\right)\times\wfkcreg_{\overline{n'}}\left(k_{1}\vect r\right)+\wfkcreg_{\overline{n}}\left(k\vect r\right)\times\wfkcreg_{n'}\left(k_{1}\vect r\right)\right)\cdot\left(\uvec r\cos\beta\left(\theta\right)+\uvec{\theta}\sin\beta\left(\theta\right)\right)\frac{\left(r\left(\theta\right)\right)^{2}\sin\theta}{\cos\beta\left(\theta\right)}\ud\theta \end{align*} \end_inset where \begin_inset Formula $\vect r=\vect r\left(\theta\right)=\left(r\left(\theta\right),\theta,0\right)$ \end_inset . Matrices \begin_inset Formula $Q',R'$ \end_inset differ from the original \begin_inset Formula $R,Q$ \end_inset matrices in \begin_inset CommandInset ref LatexCommand eqref reference "eq:T matrix from R and Q" plural "false" caps "false" noprefix "false" \end_inset by a factor of \begin_inset Formula $2\pi ik^{2}$ \end_inset , but this cancels out in the matrix product. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Float figure placement document alignment document wide false sideways false status open \begin_layout Plain Layout \align center \begin_inset Graphics filename cylinder.png lyxscale 30 width 50text% \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Plain Layout \begin_inset Caption Standard \begin_layout Plain Layout Parametrisation of cylindrical particle surface. \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Plain Layout \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard For cylindrical particle of radius \begin_inset Formula $R$ \end_inset and height \begin_inset Formula $h$ \end_inset , we can divide the parametrisation into three intervals \begin_inset Formula $\left(0,\theta_{1}\right),\left(\theta_{1},\theta_{2}\right),\left(\theta_{2},\pi\right)$ \end_inset where \begin_inset Formula $\theta_{1}=\tan^{-1}\left(2R/h\right),\theta_{2}=\pi-\tan^{-1}\left(2R/h\right)$ \end_inset : \end_layout \begin_layout Enumerate In the first section, \begin_inset Formula $0<\theta<\theta_{1}$ \end_inset , \begin_inset Formula \begin{align*} r & =\frac{h}{2\cos\theta},\\ \beta & =-\theta. \end{align*} \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Enumerate In the second section, \begin_inset Formula $\theta_{1}<\theta<\theta_{2}$ \end_inset , \begin_inset Formula \begin{align*} r & =\frac{R}{\cos\left(\theta-\pi/2\right)}=\frac{R}{\sin\theta},\\ \beta & =-\theta+\pi/2. \end{align*} \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Enumerate In the third section, \begin_inset Formula $\theta_{2}<\theta<\pi$ \end_inset , \begin_inset Formula \begin{align*} r & =\frac{h}{2\cos\left(\theta-\pi\right)}=-\frac{h}{2\cos\theta},\\ \beta & =-\theta+\pi. \end{align*} \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset CommandInset bibtex LatexCommand bibtex btprint "btPrintCited" bibfiles "Electrodynamics" options "plain" encoding "default" \end_inset \end_layout \end_body \end_document