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Photon's Energy to Kinetic Energy

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03-19-2005 5:51 PM 		Reply to: Message 5 by Eta_Carinae
03-19-2005 4:41 PM

Can you please clarify just a bit on the difference between Compton and Thomson scattering in relation to photons interacting with plasma?
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I've been trying some of the maths myself; and I've been simply using special relativistic dynamics where a photon interacts with a free electron, to exchange momentum and energy.
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I gather that Compton scattering is a high energy case and Thomson scattering a low energy case. Can you expand on this a bit?
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