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Radiation pressure (prad​)

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Radiation pressure is momentum flux carried by electromagnetic radiation. Isotropic blackbody radiation has prad​=arad​T4/3.

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Radiation pressure is the pressure exerted by electromagnetic radiation on a surface. It occurs because radiation carries momentum, and when it is absorbed, reflected, or transmitted by an object, it transfers some of this momentum to that object, resulting in a force.
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