/Optical-Wing-Simulation

A simulation of the lift and drag coefficients on a transparent semi-cylinder due to radiation pressure

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Optical-Wing-Simulation

A simulation of the lift and drag coefficients on a transparent semi-cylinder due to radiation pressure. I made a ray tracing engine in Wolfram Mathematica that computes the force that light exerts on convex surfaces.

I did this for my undergraduate thesis in physics at Reed College.