
The Radiant energy of the sun results from .

Important Questions on Thermal Properties of Matter





The filament of a light bulb has surface area The filament can be considered as a black body at temperature emitting radiation like a point source when viewed from far. At night the light bulb is observed from a distance of . Assume the pupil of the eyes of the observer to be circular with radius . Then:
(Take Stefan-Boltzmann constant Wiens' displacement constant , Planck's constant , speed of light in vacuum )

A black coloured solid sphere of radius and mass is inside a cavity with a vacuum inside. The walls of the cavity are maintained at temperature . The initial temperature of the sphere is . If the specific heat of the material of the sphere varies as per unit mass with the temperature of the sphere, where is a constant, then the time taken for the sphere to cool down to temperature will be
( is Stefan Boltzmann constant)














