Assuming a particle to have the form of a ball and to absorb all incident light find

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Assuming a particle to have the form of a ball and to absorb all incident light find the radius of a particle for which its gravitational attraction to the Sun is counterbalanced by the force that light exerts on it. The power of light radiated by the Sun equals P = 4.1026 W, and the density of the particle is p = 1.0 g/cm3
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Fundamentals of Physics

ISBN: 978-0471758013

8th Extended edition

Authors: Jearl Walker, Halliday Resnick

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