Principles of Modern Chemistry
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It has been suggested that spacecraft could be powered by the pressure exerted by sunlight striking a sail. The force exerted on a surface is the momentum p transferred to the surface per second. Assume that photons of 6000 Å light strike the sail perpendicularly. How many must be reflected per second by 1 cm 2 of surface to produce a pressure of 1 0 6 atm?

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