Resolution of the abraham-minkowski dilemma

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Barnett, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL MOMENTA; KINETIC MOMENTUM; MINKOWSKI; MOMENTUM DENSITY; MOMENTUM OF LIGHT;

EID: 77249158444     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.070401     Document Type: Article

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