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Temperature and Luminosity of Stars: Wein's Law and the Stephan Boltzmann Law
Title | Temperature and Luminosity of Stars: Wein's Law and the Stephan Boltzmann Law |
Description | The goals of this activity are to understand thermal spectra, to understand Wien’s Law and the Stephan-Boltzmann Law, to understand how thermal spectra can be used to evaluate the temperature of a star and to understand how temperature and radius of a star determine a star’s luminosity |
Subject | Astronomy |
Level | Undergrad - Intro |
Type | Lab |
Duration | 60 minutes |
Answers Included | No |
Language | English |
Keywords | Stephan-Boltzmann Law. wavelength, Wein's Law, light intensity, stellar luminosity, stellar temperature, thermal spectrum |
Simulation(s) | Blackbody Spectrum |
Author(s) | Rhoda Berenson |
Contact Email | rb143@nyu.edu |
School / Organization | New York University |
Date submitted | 7/18/14 |
Date updated | 10/27/14 |