The Wiener-Hopf technique is used to study the scattering of a surface wave which is incident upon the junction of two semi-infinite planes joined together by a step of height a. Both the planes as well as the step have a normalized surface reactance X, which supports the surface wave. The expression for the scattered field contains a series of unknown constants which require numerical solution. Graphs of the transmission and reflection coeflicients for normalized reactances of 0 . 1 and 0.5 are presented for a step height of less than half a wavelength. 1 H. M. Barlow and J. Brown, Radio Surface Waoes. Oxford: Ox-2 D. S . Jones, ''Diffraction by a thick semi-infinite plate," Proc.
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