When the total emissive power of an ideal blackbody is plotted on the y-axis against…
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Problem
When the total emissive power E of an ideal blackbody is plotted on the y-axis against T4 on the x-axis, which description of the resulting graph is correct?
(a) A straight line cutting the y-axis at a positive intercept
(b) A straight line passing through the origin with slope equal to a constant
(c) A parabola opening upward
(d) A straight line passing through the origin with slope 4σ