Document Details Resonant detection of light pressure by a torsion pendulum in air:
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- Title: Resonant detection of light pressure by a torsion pendulum in air
SubTitle: An experiment for underclass labratories - Author: Robert E. Pollock
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Other Keywords: light pressure on pendulum
Notes: "A mirror suspended by a torsion fiber in air may be driven at resonance by the force from an interrupted light beam to reach a detectable oscillation amplitude. The radiometer forces which compete with the true light force may be separated experimentally. The method was tested as a laboratory experiment by a small freshman class and proved to be workable and interesting to the students. The concrete experience with damped simple-harmonic motion and with small-signal detection techniques as well as the simplicity of the apparatus enhance the interest of this project as a teaching experiment. "
Edition: 1963 vol 31 Dec -- Copyright: 1963
Kind: Article
Type: Other
Geographic area: Not Geographic
Topic: Physics
Organization: School
Pages: 901 - 904
Entered By: rah
BHM No: 14237
Parent Document ID: 6116 - Parent Document Title: American Journal of Physics - Publisher:
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