light and momentum
Electricity and Magnetism
Level
2
Is it possible to measure the momentum of photons (light particles)?
Note : photons are massless.
no
yes
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1 solution
if photons have no mass you can not calculate the momentum because momentum =mass multiplied by speed 0 multiplied by c = 0