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the reason the sun's radiant energy is of shorter wavelengths than the earth's is because the sunquestion 12 options:is an energy source while the earth is primarily an energy receiver.all of thesehas a higher temperature than the earth.has much more internal energy



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The sun's radiant energy is of shorter wavelengths than the earth's is because the sun has higher temperature than the earth.

What is Planck's curve ?

As the temperature of a blackbody radiator increases, the total energy emitted increases and the peak of the radiation curve shifts to shorter wavelengths. Calculating the maximum from the Planck radiation formula shows that the product of peak wavelength and temperature is constant.

Because the Sun is hotter than the Earth, it emits radiation at shorter wavelengths, and the hot Planck curve peaks at shorter wavelengths. For this reason, the Earth's radiation is called long-wave, and the Sun's is called short-wave.

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