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The ‘missing’ energy is stored in the oscillations of the electron up and down and this is caused by the electric fields of the light wave driving it. This is the energy that is re-emitted as a new photon.
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So you are saying that the electric field of the photon imparts momentum perpendicular to the direction the photon was travelling in (and recoil velocity)? Why does this cause oscillation rather than an additional scattering component? |
Light is a transverse wave. When you set up your T/V aerial, do you lie the metal rods along the direction in which the wave is travelling ie point the rods towards the transmitter? No you most certainly do not. You put the metal rods perpendicular to the line between yourself and the transmitter so that the elctric fields cause the electrons in the rods to move up and down.
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Because of the other electrons imparting a restoring force? Assuming that would work (which it doesn't, as has been shown numerous times) you then have the problem of energy being diffused through the system...
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It only gets diffused through the system at resonce 6 Hz in IG space. Otherwise it is contained within a very small number of electrons - as in atom.
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The photon comes in and sets the electron and it neighbours oscillating
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How on earth does the electron reclaim that energy from the system to re-emit the photon?
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The electron does not 'reclaim' the energy - the system of electrons emit a new photon, as in an atom.
Cheers,
Lyndon