  The Sudden Approximation (SA) for scattering of atoms from surfaces is
generalized to allow for double collision events and scattering from
time-dependent quantum liquid surfaces. The resulting new schemes retain the
simplicity of the original SA, while requiring little extra computational
effort. The results suggest that inert atom (and in particular He) scattering
can be used profitably to study hitherto unexplored forms of complex surface
disorder.
