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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 |
Comments
This provides a very interesting application for the simulation.
Trish
11/3/14
