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Support💖https://www.patreon.com/dibyajyotidas Donate 🌷 https://paypal.me/FortheLoveofPhysics VIDEO DESCRIPTION ► We can show that a free electron cannot absorb a light photon completely, by looking at the Conservation laws of Energy and Linear momentum in such a process. As it can be easily shown that such a process of a free electron absorbing a photon does not conserve energy and momentum simultaneously. Thus we can conclude that such a process is not possible. However, partial absorption is possible (for e.g. Compton effect)

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