What is the pressure exerted by a beam of light on a perfect mirror from which it

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What is the pressure exerted by a beam of light on a perfect mirror from which it reflects at normal (perpendicular) incidence? Generalize this to light incident at an angle θ to the normal on an imperfect mirror (which reflects a fraction r(θ) of the light incident at angle θ).

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The Physics of Energy

ISBN: 978-1107016651

1st edition

Authors: Robert L. Jaffe, Washington Taylor

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