The Surface Of The Earth Receives Solar Radiation At The Rate Of 1400 Wm – 2. The Distance Of The Centre Of The Sun From The Surface Of The Earth Is  m And The Radius Of The Sun Is  m. Treating The Sun As A Back Body, It Follows From The Above Data That The Surface Temperature Of The Sun Is About

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Question

The surface of the earth receives solar radiation at the rate of 1400 Wm – 2. The distance of the centre of the sun from the surface of the earth is  m and the radius of the sun is  m. Treating the sun as a back body, it follows from the above data that the surface temperature of the sun is about

Solution

Correct option is

5803 K

 

Let R be the radius of the sun and let r be the radius of the earth’s orbit round the sun. If the surface temperature of the sun is T (in kelvin), the energy emitted per second by the surface of the sun = , where is Stefan’s constant whose value is  Now the area of the spherical surface of radius  Therefore, energy received per second by a unit area of the earth’s surface is

          

Which gives

                 

                        

or                  T = 5803 K

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