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Esposito, S. – Physics Education, 2011
This article comes from a question asked by a student of mine: if the Sun radiates energy in the form of electromagnetic waves, could they shift the Earth from its current orbit on a suitable timescale? The answer to such a question is apparently obvious and trivial. Nevertheless, it requires an instructive reasoning and interesting estimates of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Astronomy, Scientific Concepts