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Aberration and radiation pressure in the Klein and Poincare models
B. H. Lavendasubject
Physics - General PhysicsGeneral Physics (physics.gen-ph)FOS: Physical sciencesdescription
Aberration and radiation pressure reflected by a moving mirror are examples of the Klein and Poincar\'e models of hyperbolic geometry, respectively. Reflection at a moving mirror produces a two-way Dopper shift. Its one-way counterpart, aberration, has nothing to do with the radiation pressure on a moving mirror, but, rather with the pressure on a completely absorbing surface. Both pressures vanish when the angle of parallelism is reached. Two-way, second-order Doppler shifts can be used to establish experimentally the existence of an angle of parallelism.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-06-17 |