Recent content by wolfson109

Technically, for propulsion purposes you wouldn't need to be able to reflect the photons given off. Even if you just absorbed them you would gain a propulsive force from the radiation pressure, but the force would only be half of the maximum available from pure reflection. I don't know if that...

pankaj192 is right, you don't get shm because that would imply that you have a restoring force which is dependent on displacement from an equilibrium position. This is not the case and instead what we see is that the restoring force has no dependence on the displacement. We can demonstrate this...