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Re:Why are some things darker when wet? by melon_madness on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:05PM (#22006398)
Conservation of momentum doesn’t mean that the momentum of the emitted photon has to be equal to that of the absorbed photon. It means the sum of the momentum of the emitted photon and the mirror must equal the momentum of the absorbed photon, assuming the mirror had no momentum to begin with.

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