Reflections that do not undergo this phenomenon are known as specular.
The differential cross section for two types of this phenomenon is given by the Klein-Nishina formula. One of those types is named for Thomson, while the other results in the decrease in energy of an X-ray or gamma ray photon. Reflections that do not undergo this phenomenon are known as specular. One inelastic kind of this process has Stokes and anti-Stokes varieties, while an elastic type acts on the sun's light to produce diffuse sky radiation and explains why the sky is blue. For 10 points, name this deviation in the trajectory of a beam of light, which has types named for Compton, Raman, and Rayleigh.
The differential cross section for two types of this phenomenon is given by the Klein-Nishina formula.
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