Surface temperature of the sun

We try to investigate the temperature of the sun’s surface by measuring the temperature change of a water filled and blacked test tube when exposed to the sun for a certain time.

Complete notebook in the Anaconda cloud

The local copy of the notebook can be found here.

History

Huy’s work 2019/11/25

He submitted his work as can be seen in this notebook. The main code there is the following:

def Solar_Constant(deltaT, m = 30, r = 0.011, h = 0.1, t = 300):
  return(((m * 4.186 * deltaT)/t)/(2 * r * h))

def Temp(Solar_Constant):
  numerator = Solar_Constant * ((1.495978707*(10**11))**2)
  demominator = (5.67*(10**(-8))) * ((6.955*(10**8))**2)
  return (numerator/demominator)**(0.25)

TempChange = input("Input the predicted temperature change: ")
S = Solar_Constant(float(TempChange))
Sun = Temp(S)
print(str(int(S)) + " w/m^2 is the Solar Constant calculated from the given change in temperature.")
print(str(int(Sun)) + "K is the temperature of the Sun.")

Some minor mistakes were fixed during the lesson.