The surface temperature of a star is about 10,000 K.  Use this to calculate the total energy radiated by the star per second. (You may use that the radius of the star is 2.5 times that of the Sun.)

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Problem 63P: The surface of the Sun has a temperature of about 5 800 K. The radius of the Sun is 6.96 108 m....
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The surface temperature of a star is about 10,000 K.  Use this to calculate the total energy radiated by the star per second. (You may use that the radius of the star is 2.5 times that of the Sun.)

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