Physics Technology Update (4th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32190-308-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-308-2

Chapter 16 - Temperature and Heat - Problems and Conceptual Exercises - Page 569: 59

Answer

$56$

Work Step by Step

We can find the ratio of net power as $\frac{P_1}{P_2}=\frac{e\sigma A(T_1^4-T_s^4)}{e\sigma (T_2^4-T_s^4)}$ We plug in the known values to obtain: $\frac{P_1}{P_2}=\frac{(273.15+98)^4+(273.15+21)^4}{(273.15+23)^4-(273.15+21)^4}=56$
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