The momentum of a light wave in a refracting medium
- 1 May 1973
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Vol. 333 (1593) , 149-156
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1973.0053
Abstract
Elementary considerations support the result of Abraham, by which the momentum is, for given energy, inversely proportional to the refractive index, rather than proportional to it, as predicted by Minkowski. This conclusion disagrees, however, with the experiment of Jones & Richards.Keywords
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