Recent content by Jigglypuff

Firstly, thank you for the replies! Yes you are right, sorry for the confusion; however, this problem should be able to be explained using both models, right? If we take a single photon instead of a ray, it will be absorbed, and re-emitted (lets say in the average overall direction of...

Hello, This has been bugging me for some time now, so I would be interested to see what I have been missing so far. Imagine a single ray of light (made up of many photons) hitting a perfectly non-absorbing (for this wavelength of light) spherical dielectric object, which has finite mass. The...