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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/2016/s16/1/3/solution

Write . Then , giving local slope . At 5000–6000 K its magnitude is about K. The low-ionization tail in the original graph drops roughly one decade per K, consistent with this value.
At K, the graph gives K and . Invert the full equation to get , yielding . The neighboring tail markers give the same order; plotting precision and the squared dependence on the read ionization fraction preclude claiming many significant digits.

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