Home
Class 12
PHYSICS
A perfectly absorbing solid sphere with ...

A perfectly absorbing solid sphere with a known fixed density, hovers stationary above the sun. This is because the gravitational attraction of the sun is balanced by the pressure due to the sun’s light. Assume the sun is far enough away so that it closely approximates a point source of light. Find the radius of the sphere and prove that it is independent of the distance of the sphere from the Sun.

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

The correct Answer is:
`R = (3p_("sun"))/(16picdGM_("sun"))`
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

A perfectly absobing, black, solid sphere with constant density and radius R, hovers stationary above the sun. This is because the gravitational attraction of the sun is balanced by the pressure due to the sun's light. Assume the sun is far enough away that it closely approximates a point source of light. The distance from the centre of the sun at which the sphere hovers is :

The distance of the Earth from the Sun is

Find the period of revoluition of planet Mars about the sun if mean distance of the Mars from the sun is 1.52AU.

Express the average distance of the earth from the sun in light year.

The Earth is acted upon by the gravitational force of attraction due to the sun. They why does the Earth not fall towards sun?

Plants require sun light for their

ARIHANT-WAVE PARTICLE DUALITY AND ATOMIC PHYSICS-All Questions
  1. A horizontal beam of light in incident on a plane mirror inclined at 4...

    Text Solution

    |

  2. Intensity of sunlight on the surface of the earth is I = 1400 W//m^(2)...

    Text Solution

    |

  3. A perfectly absorbing solid sphere with a known fixed density, hovers ...

    Text Solution

    |

  4. Prove that Bohr’s condition for quantization of angular momentum in hy...

    Text Solution

    |

  5. The circumference of circular orbit of electron in a He^(+) ion is fiv...

    Text Solution

    |

  6. A gas of hydrogen - like atoms can absorb radiations of 698 eV. Conseq...

    Text Solution

    |

  7. A small particle of mass m moves in such a way that the potential ener...

    Text Solution

    |

  8. Hydrogen like atoms (atomic number = Z) in a sample are in excited sta...

    Text Solution

    |

  9. A mu – meson (charge = – e, mass= 208 m(e)) moves in a circular orbit ...

    Text Solution

    |

  10. A hydrogen like atom (atomic number = Z) is in higher excited state of...

    Text Solution

    |

  11. A system of positron (+1^(e^(0))) and electron (–1^(e^(0))) is called ...

    Text Solution

    |

  12. A negatively charged muon (mass 207 times the mass of an electron) is ...

    Text Solution

    |

  13. Consider a gas of hydrogen atom filling a cubical box of side length 1...

    Text Solution

    |

  14. Hydrogen atoms in ground state are bombarded by electrons accelerated ...

    Text Solution

    |

  15. A glass tube has Be^(+++) ions excited to their second excited state. ...

    Text Solution

    |

  16. An electron in an excited hydrogen atom makes transition from a state ...

    Text Solution

    |

  17. A moving hydrogen atom absorbs a photon and comes to rest. What is the...

    Text Solution

    |

  18. A tube contains a sample of hydrogen atoms which are all in their thir...

    Text Solution

    |

  19. The biding energy of an electron in the ground state of He atom is 25 ...

    Text Solution

    |

  20. Absorption spectrum is obtained for a sample of gas having atomic hydr...

    Text Solution

    |