On pressure and ponderomotive force in a
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P. Mazur; S.R. de Groot
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Article
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1956
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Elsevier Science
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## Synopsis A statistical mechanical derivation of the expressions for both pressure and ponderomotive force in a dielectric is given in terms of averages over microscopic quantities. The existence of microscopic long-range interactions leads to the possibility of defining pressure and ponderomoti