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A small object is placed at the center of a large evacuated hollow spherical container. Assume that the container is maintained at 0 K. At time t = 0, the temperature of the object is 200 K. The temperature of the object becomes 100 K at t = t1 and 50 K at t = t2. Assume the object and the container to be ideal black bodies. The heat capacity of the object does not depend on temperature. The ratio (t2/t1) is .
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- Use Stefan–Boltzmann law for radiative cooling
Since the object is a black body inside a large evacuated container maintained at , it loses energy only by radiation.
For a black body at temperature , radiated power is
where is Stefan–Boltzmann constant and is the surface area of the object.
Because the surroundings are at , there is no incoming radiation, so net power loss is
- Relate heat loss to temperature change
Heat content changes as
where is the heat capacity of the object, given constant.
Thus,
So,
- Separate variables and integrate
Let
Then
which gives
Integrate from at to temperature at time :
Now,
So,
Thus,
- Find when
Since
we get
- Find when
Now,
So,
- Take the ratio
Therefore,
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