Abstract
Jay Orear, in his introductory physics text,1 defined the weight of a person as the reading one gets when standing on a (properly calibrated) bathroom scale. Here we will use Jay's definition of weight in a thought experiment to measure the weight of a photon. The thought experiment uses the results of the Pound-Rebka-Snider2,3 experiments, Compton scattering experiments, and the Eötvös experiments.
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Huggins, E. (2010). Weighing Photons Using Bathroom Scales: A Thought Experiment. The Physics Teacher, 48(5), 287–288. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.3393053
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