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The conservation of momentum and energy between an emitted photon and an electron in the {C} {C}{}erenkov radiation gives an equation for the direction of emission. This equation differs from the one which Frank and Tamm derived from electromagnetic theory only by a negligible term involving the ratio of the wave-length of the electron to that of the photon.
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R. T. Cox (1944) studied this question.
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