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Radiation pressure on a perfectly absorbing surface
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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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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge
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2020
/
ii
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Paper 3
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36D
/
ii
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Solution
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