Student handout: Thermal radiation at twice the temperature
Contemporary Challenges 2021
This small group activity has students reasoning about how the Planck distribution shifts when the temperature is doubled. This leads to a qualitative argument for the Stefan-Boltzmann law.
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Stefan-Boltzmann blackbody radiation
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Question:
When the temperature of a black surface is doubled, what happens to the total energy emitted per unit time?- Increase by 2 times
- Increase by 4 times
- Increase by 8 times
- Increase by 16 times
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- Stefan-Boltzmann blackbody radiation
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- Aug. 12, 2023, 3:02 p.m.