The Solar Constant The surface of the Sun has a

Chapter 16, Problem 86

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The Solar Constant The surface of the Sun has a temperature of 5500 C. (a)Treating the Sun as a perfect blackbody, with an emissivity of 1.0, nd the power that it radiates into space. The radius of the Sun is , and the temperature of space can be taken to be 3.0 K. (b)Thesolar constantis the number of watts of sunlight power falling on a square meter of the Earths upper atmosphere. Use your result from part (a) to calculate the solar constant, given that the distance from the Sun to the Earth is .

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