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Transcribed Image Text:High-power lasers are used to compress a plasma (a gas of charged particles) by radiation pressure. A laser generating radiation
pulses with peak power 1900 MW is focused onto 1.2 mm2 of high-electron-density plasma. Find the pressure exerted on the
plasma if the plasma reflects all the light beams directly back along their paths.
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1.2E5 *
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N/m^2 or Pa
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