Plant life exists only in the top 10 meters of a lake or sea, primarily because the
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Plant life exists only in the top 10 meters of a lake or sea, primarily because the intensity of sunlight decreases exponentially with depth. Specifically, the Bouguer-Lambert law says that a beam of light that strikes the surface of a body of water with intensity I0 will have intensity I at a depth of x meters, where I = I0e−kx with k > 0. The constant k, called the absorption coefficient, depends on the wavelength of the light and the density of the water. Suppose a beam of sunlight is only 10% as intense at a depth of 3 meters as at the surface. How intense is the beam at a depth of 1 meter? (Express your answer in terms of I0.)
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Calculus For Business, Economics And The Social And Life Sciences
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