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Year 13 Physics

Astrophysics and cosmology

Stars and their luminosity, the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and stellar evolution, Wien and Stefan laws, standard candles, redshift, the Hubble law and the Big Bang.

Astrophysics and cosmology free practice

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1. Take the intensity of sunlight at Earth to be 1360 W m⁻². How many watts of solar power fall on a 2.0 m² panel facing the Sun directly?

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