College Physics (4th Edition)

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0073512141
ISBN 13: 978-0-07351-214-3

Chapter 26 - Problems - Page 1012: 44

Answer

(a) The mass lost by the sun per day is $3.8\times 10^{14}~kg$ (b) The percentage of the sun's mass that is lost per day is $(1.9\times 10^{-14})~\%$

Work Step by Step

(a) We can find the total energy released from the sun every day: $E = Intensity\times~Area~\times time$ $E = (1400~W/m^2)\times~(4\pi)(1.5\times 10^{11}~m)^2~\times (24)(3600~s)$ $E = 3.42\times 10^{31}~J$ We can find the mass lost by the sun per day: $E = mc^2$ $m = \frac{E}{c^2}$ $m = \frac{3.42\times 10^{31}~J}{(3.0\times 10^8~m/s)^2}$ $m = 3.8\times 10^{14}~kg$ The mass lost by the sun per day is $3.8\times 10^{14}~kg$ (b) We can find the percentage of the sun's mass that is lost each day: $\frac{3.8\times 10^{14}~kg}{1.989\times 10^{30}~kg}~\times 100\% = (1.9\times 10^{-14})~\%$ The percentage of the sun's mass that is lost per day is $(1.9\times 10^{-14})~\%$
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