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Worked Example: Solar Luminosity from First Principles

July 5, 2026June 13, 2026 by David Humpherys

Compute the Sun’s luminosity from the Planck-decomposed Stefan-Boltzmann law: four factors spanning 202 orders of magnitude — from 10⁻¹¹⁴ to 10⁸⁸ — combine to match the IAU value to four significant figures.

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