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dezoksy [38]
3 years ago
8

Explain what happens inside the radiation zone that causes the photon to take so long to exit the sun

Physics
1 answer:
DaniilM [7]3 years ago
6 0
-A photon travels, on average, a particular distance, d, before being briefly absorbed and released by an atom, which scatters it in a new random direction.

-Given d and the speed of light, c, you can figure out the average time step and space step size (how often the photon “steps” and how far it “steps” each time).

-The size of the Sun is figured in terms of step size. Some surprisingly tricky math happens, involving “Brownian motion” and probabilities. Finally,

-The average time it would take to get to the surface of the Sun is found.
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