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Is it possible to determine the temperature of the surface of the Sun from the temperature increase of a glass of sunlit water? This experiment shows how.
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Golden, L.M. (2013). Experiment 18 The Surface Temperature and Energy Output of the Sun. In: Laboratory Experiments in Physics for Modern Astronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3311-8_18
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