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HELP! When a parallel beam of light, of intensity or energy flux, I, falls perpendicularly on an absorbing surface of area, A, the energy, E, incident in a time, t, is equal to I At. The momentum, p, transferred to the surface is given by p= E/c= IAt/c where c is the speed of light.

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