Abstract
This paper demonstrates the manner in which the Mie results for light scattering by a three-dimensional sphere of arbitrary size and refractive index crosses over to Fraunhofer diffraction by a two-dimensional circular aperture of the same radius in the limit of very large radius. Demonstration is feasible only because the graphical results are plotted in the manner of the Q-space analysis that plots scattered intensity versus the logarithm of the magnitude of the scattering wave vector rather than linear versus the scattering angle.
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