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Forward Scatter
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The scattering
of radiant
energy into the hemisphere of space bounded by a plane normal to the
direction of the incident radiation and lying on the side toward which the
incident radiation was advancing; the opposite of backward
scatter.
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''In Rayleigh
scattering, forward scatter accounts for half of the total. As the
particle size increases above the Rayleigh limit, an increasing fraction of
the total scattering is forward scattering. [[/a>|/a>
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References
This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
