One Star Has a Temperature of 30,000 K and Another

question 95

Multiple Choice

One star has a temperature of 30,000 K and another star has a temperature of 6,000 K. Compared to the cooler star, how much more energy per second will the hotter star radiate from each square meter of its surface?

• A) 5 times
• B) 25 times
• C) 8.1 × 10¹⁷ times
• D) 625 times
• E) 1.3 × 10¹⁵ times

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