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What maximum power can be radiated by a 10-cm-diameter solid lead sphere? Assume an emissivity of 1.
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VerifiedThe power that is radiated from an object with surface , that has emissivity , at temperature , is given by
where =5.67 is the .
At first it might seem there is a problem, since we're not given a definite temperature: that'd mean the answer is infinity, since we can increase the temperature to infinity. However, we are told we have a , which means that we can increase the temperature only to the melting point of lead, which is =601 K.
Having said this, we now need to substitute the area of the sphere: for a diameter , the area of a sphere is
Substituting, we get the maximum radiated power to be
Substituting the numerical values, we can find
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