One Star Has a Temperature of 30,000 K and Another $8.1 × 10^{17}$

question 8

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)\(8.1 × 10^{17}\) times
• D)625 times
• E)\(1.3 × 10^{15}\) times

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