A Possible Means of Spaceflight Is to Place a Perfectly

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Short Answer

A possible means of spaceflight is to place a perfectly reflecting aluminized sheet into Earth orbit and use the light from the sun to push this solar sail. If a huge sail of area 6.00 × 10⁵ m² and mass 6000 kg were placed into orbit and turned toward the sun, what would be the force exerted on the sail? (Assume a solar intensity of 1380 W/m².)

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