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Mar 21, 2013
How much energy radiated by the sun reaches Earth?
Detailed Explanation
That number is the ratio of (the area of the half of the Earth facing the sun) to
(the area of a sphere whose radius is 93 million miles).
Radius of earth . . . 4,000 miles
Area of Earth . . . 4 (pi) R2 = 64 x 106 pi square miles.
Area of the side facing the sun . . . 32 x 106 pi square miles.
Radius of the sphere at Earth's orbit . . . 93 x 106 miles
Area through which the suns radiation is pouring = 4 (pi) R2 = 3.46 x 1016 square miles
The ratio is . . . (32 x 106) / (3.46 x 1016) = 9.25 x 10-10 = roughly 1 billionth of it.
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