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The corpuscular nature of light was established not only by the interpretation Einstein gave to the photoelectric effect, but also by the success of the application of Relativistic Mechanics in the explanation of the observations of A.H.
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Christodoulides, C. (2016). Applications of Relativistic Dynamics. In: The Special Theory of Relativity. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25274-2_7
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