Aberration and radiation pressure in the Klein and Poincare models
General Physics
2011-10-25 v2
Abstract
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.
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@article{arxiv.0806.2772,
title = {Aberration and radiation pressure in the Klein and Poincare models},
author = {B. H. Lavenda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2772},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
12 pages, 6 figures, corrected typos, added content