Assuming the earth's surface is black, estimate its temperature if the sun has an equivalent blackbody temperature

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Assuming the earth's surface is black, estimate its temperature if the sun has an equivalent blackbody temperature of 5800 K. The diameters of the sun and earth are 1.39 x 109 and 1.29 x 107m, respectively, and the distance between the sun and earth is 1.5 x 1011 m.

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Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer

ISBN: 978-0471457282

6th Edition

Authors: Incropera, Dewitt, Bergman, Lavine

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