Text: "Radiant energy transfer." The fraction of a light pulse's energy that can be transformed to kinetic energy of a moving body is found to depend on the body's speed as well as color. At speeds approaching the speed of light almost all of the pulse's energy will be transformed into kinetic energy by either a black or a white body. American Journal of Physics. 50(4), Apr. 1982. p. 335-337.

See Also: Compton effect, photoelectric effect, relativistic dynamics, photon absorption, kinetic energy.

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