An elementary approach to electromagnetic momentum in matter
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momentumelectromagneticelementaryapproachconductingconservationconsistentdensity
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We present an elementary discussion of the momentum transferred to a conducting sheet by an electromagnetic wave propagating in a polarizable medium. We show that conservation of momentum is consistent with Minkowski's expression for the momentum density.
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