If You Look at the Center of the Sun,you See

question 49

Multiple Choice

If you look at the center of the Sun,you see into the base of the photosphere at approximately 5800 K.If you look into the Sun nearer the edge,you might see as far as a layer above the base with a temperature of perhaps 5500 K.According to the Stefan-Boltzmann relation,what is the flux in the center of the solar disk compared to the flux near the edge?

• A) 5500/5800 = 0.95
• B) 5800/5500 = 1.05
• C) (5800/5500) 2 = 1.11
• D) (5800/5500) 4 = 1.24

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