The Hot Car Project:

• 1. summarize in your own words the Stefan-Boltzmann radiation law;
• 2. tabulate the temperature measurements your group made;
• 3. calculate the estimated temperature of the Sun and the % difference between the
actual and estimated temperatures of the Sun;
• 4. answer the following questions:
–a. Critique your answer: why might the estimated temperature of the Sun not
match the measured temperature based on the readings of the thermometer
placed in your car? In other words, what variables or factors have we not
considered in our simple approach? Identify a few improvements.
–b. Specify the actual average temperature of the Earth (fromWiki, Google,
ask.com or wherever). Describe briefly conditions on Earth if the actual
temperature matched the value calculated in the top part of the report.
–c. Contrast the actual temperature with the temperature of the Earth calculated
in the top part of the report. To obtain the ’calculated temperature’, look on
page 2 of this exercise at the text inbold. You need to use the equation and the
numbers that are both the bold text to calculate the temperature of the Earth.

–d. Describe the ’greenhouse effect’ in your own words. Is there anyanalogy
between the Hot Car and the greenhouse effect and if so, what is it?
–e. State briefly the essence of the current debate over ’global warming’ or ’global
climate change’. Investigate the difference between the ’greenhouse effect’ and
’global warming.’

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