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ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-prelims-and-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/s2/2/1/solution
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Past exam of the short options paper shared by Prelims and Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford
/
2015
/
S2
/
2
/
1
/
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2026-10-25
The
effective temperature
is defined by the
Stefan–Boltzmann law
applied to
a
star
'
s
total
luminosity
:
L
=
4
π
R
2
σ
SB
T
eff
4
.
(1)
Here
R
is the adopted photospheric
radius
and
σ
SB
is the
Stefan-Boltzmann constant
. This
defines
the
temperature
of
a
black body
radiating the same total
flux
per unit
surface area
; it does not assert that every
wavelength
of the
stellar spectrum
follows
a
perfect
Planck spectrum
.
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