Take the surface temperature of our sun to be 6000 K and its luminosity to be

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Problem

Take the surface temperature of our sun to be 6000 K and its luminosity to be 3.9×1026 W3.9 \times 10^{26} \text{ W} . Find, in terms of the solar radius, the radius of a star with: (1) temperature 4000 K and luminosity 5.2×1028 W5.2 \times 10^{28} \text{ W} (2) temperature 9250 K and luminosity 4.7×1027 W4.7 \times 10^{27} \text{ W} .

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