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jaketodd
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Hey guys and gals,
Here are two of a vast sea of sources that say a passing EM wave will disturb charged particles:
http://books.google.com/books?id=jC4...age&q=&f=false
"...a wave passing over a row of electrons; the arrows indicate the magnitude and direction of the electromagnetic force the wave exerts on the charges."
http://webpages.ursinus.edu/dnagy/ph...cRadiation.pdf
"As an electromagnetic wave passes a charged particle, the Electromagnetic Waves Electric field produces a strong upward force on a
electric field at the particle varies with time, dragging the particle back and forth along the direction of the field."
So we know that momentum can be transferred to particles without the EM wave collapsing to a particle and a collision happening.
My question: If you know how far away the EM wave is from the particle and you measured how much the particle is disturbed by it, would that reveal the momentum of the whole EM wave/photon?
Thanks in advance,
Jake
Here are two of a vast sea of sources that say a passing EM wave will disturb charged particles:
http://books.google.com/books?id=jC4...age&q=&f=false
"...a wave passing over a row of electrons; the arrows indicate the magnitude and direction of the electromagnetic force the wave exerts on the charges."
http://webpages.ursinus.edu/dnagy/ph...cRadiation.pdf
"As an electromagnetic wave passes a charged particle, the Electromagnetic Waves Electric field produces a strong upward force on a
electric field at the particle varies with time, dragging the particle back and forth along the direction of the field."
So we know that momentum can be transferred to particles without the EM wave collapsing to a particle and a collision happening.
My question: If you know how far away the EM wave is from the particle and you measured how much the particle is disturbed by it, would that reveal the momentum of the whole EM wave/photon?
Thanks in advance,
Jake
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