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Radiation pressure on a perfectly absorbing surface
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Radiation pressure on a perfectly absorbing surface
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2026-09-29
A
normally incident
vacuum
wave
of
time
-averaged intensity
I
transfers
momentum
I
/
c
per unit
area
and
time
to
a
perfectly absorbing
surface
, so its
radiation pressure
is
p
=
c
I
.
(1)
A
perfect
reflector
reverses the normal
momentum
and gives
2
I
/
c
.
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