Definition of Radiation pressure

1. Noun. The minute pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a wave.


Definition of Radiation pressure

1. Noun. (physics) The pressure exerted by electromagnetic radiation on an object on which it impinges, as a consequence of its momentum. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Radiation Pressure

radiation hardening
radiation inactivation
radiation injuries
radiation leukaemia virus
radiation monitoring
radiation myelitis
radiation myelopathy
radiation of corpus callosum
radiation oncologist
radiation oncology
radiation pattern
radiation physicist
radiation physics
radiation pneumonitis
radiation poisoning
radiation pressure (current term)
radiation pyrometer
radiation risks
radiation shielding
radiation sickness
radiation sign
radiation signs
radiation syndrome
radiation therapy
radiation tolerance
radiation weighting factor
radiational
radiationally
radiationless
radiationlike

Literary usage of Radiation pressure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1911)
"The tangential component of the radiation pressure, on the other hand, will produce a deflection, the magnitude of which can be read with a mirror and scale ..."

2. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"The tangential component of the radiation pressure, on the other hand, will produce a deflection, the magnitude of which can be read with a mirror and scale ..."

3. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1905)
"... and in general this pressure is vastly greater than the true radiation pressure. Nichols and Hull finally succeeded in eliminating the gas action by ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"Such particles continuously expelled, in virtue of the excess of radiation pressure over gravitation, may give rise to the coronal streamers around the sun. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"Such particles continuously expelled, in virtue of the excess of radiation pressure .over gravitation, may give rise to the coronal streamers around the sun ..."

6. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1901)
"From the known constant of the torsion-balance this deflection gives 1.05 X io~4 dynes as the radiation pressure. By means of a bolometer constructed for ..."

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