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Consider a source at infinity radiating a light of intensity I. A spherical ball is given a velocity V towards the direction of source. Find the distance travelled by the ball before coming momentarily to rest.
Given: \textbf {Given:} mass of the ball m = π kg \text{mass of the ball }m=\pi \text{ kg} radius R = 1 m \text{radius }R= 1\text{ m} initial velocity V = 2 m/s \text{initial velocity } V=2\text{m/s} intensity I = 1 W / m 2 \text{intensity}I=1W/m^{2} speed of light c = 3 × 1 0 8 m/s \text{speed of light}c=3\times 10^{8}\text{ m/s}

Assumptions: \textbf {Assumptions:} 1. The sphere is perfectly reflecting . \text{1. The sphere is perfectly reflecting}. 2. Consider no rotational motion, only translational motion. \text{2. Consider no rotational motion, only translational motion.} 3.All surfaces are smooth. \text{3.All surfaces are smooth.}

if answer can be given as p × 1 0 8 m \text{if answer can be given as } p\times 10^{8}\text{ m} Then find the integer p ?


The answer is 6.

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Keshav Tiwari
Dec 14, 2014

Nice question @Shubhendu Gupta ! I used the fact that power = force * velocity to calculate the retarding force . Dividing this force by the mass of body we get the retarding acceleration. Then, by applying v^2-u^2 =2as I found the distance to be 2*c. Hence the answer. :)

Why u multiply 2with c

Neeraj Moundekar - 6 years, 5 months ago

How did you get 2 c? I did it the same way you did it and got the distance to be 0.5 c.

Aran Pasupathy - 5 years, 11 months ago
Ashish Dogra
Feb 3, 2016

Force must be radiation pressure times area effective. Find out acceleration from there. Then use third equation of kinematics.

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