Blackbody Radiation

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Important Questions on Blackbody Radiation

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If the temperature of the sun were to increase from T  to 2T and its radius from R  to  2R then the ratio of the radiant energy received on earth to what it was previously will be

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A black metal foil is warmed by radiation from a small sphere at temperature T and at a distance d. It is found that the power received by the foil is P. If both the temperature and the distance are doubled, the power received by the foil will be
 

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The radiation energy density per unit wavelength at a temperature T  has a maximum at a wavelength λ0 . At temperature 2 T, it will have a maximum wavelength

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Solar radiation emitted by sun resembles that emitted by a black body at a temperature of 6000 K . Maximum intensity is emitted at a wavelength of about 4800 A°. If the sun were to cool down from 6000 K  to 3000 K,, then the peak intensity would occur at a wavelength

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The ratio of radiant energies radiated per unit surface area by two bodies is 16: 1, the temperature of hotter body is 1000 K, then the temperature of colder body will be

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The temperature of two bodies A and B are respectively 727°C  and 327°C, the ratio of the rates of heat radiated HA:HB by them, is

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The filament of an evacuated light bulb has a length 10 cm, diameter 0.2 mm and emissivity 0.2, calculate the power it radiates at 2000 K σ=5.67×10-8 W m-2 K-4

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 At temperature T , the emissive power and absorption power of a body for certain wavelength are eλ  and aλ  respectively, then

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Three bodies A,B and C have equal area which are painted red, yellow and black respectively. If they are at the same temperature, then

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If the radius of a star is R and it acts as a black body, what would be the temperature of the star, in which the rate of energy production is Q?

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Assuming the Sun to be a spherical body of radius R at a temperature of T K, evaluate the total radiant power incident of Earth at a distance r from the Sun, where, r0 is radius of earth and σ is Stefan's constant.

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The plots of intensity versus wavelength for three black bodies at temperatures T1,T2 and T3 respectively are as shown. Their temperature is such that

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The total radiant energy per unit area, normal to the direction of incidence, received at a distance R from the centre of a star of radius r, whose outer surface radiates as a black body at a temperature T K is given by

(where σ is Stefan's constant)

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A black body at 227°C radiates heat at the rate of 7 cal cm-2 s-1 . At a temperature of 727°C, the rate of heat radiated in the same units will be

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The emissive power of a black body at T=300 K is 100 Watt m-2. Consider a body B of area A=10 m2 coefficient of reflectivity r=0.3 and coefficient of transmission t=0.5. Its temperature is 300 K . Then which of the following is incorrect?
 

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A spherical body of area A and emissivity e=0.6 is kept inside a perfectly black body. Total heat radiated by the body at temperature T is

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If the temperature of the sun were to increase from T  to 2T  and its radius from R  to 2R  then the ratio of the radiant energy received on earth to what it was previously will be

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Two spheres of the same material have radii 1 m  and 4 m  and temperatures 4000 K  and 2000 K  respectively. The ratio of the energy radiated per second by the first sphere to that by the second is