Astronomy
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Author: Andrew Fraknoi; David Morrison; Sidney C. Wolff
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Chapter 29, Problem 27E
Continuing the thinking in Exercise 29.27 and Exercise 29.28, calculate the energy in a cubic meter of space, multiply the energy per photon calculated in Exercise 29.26 by the number of photons per cubic meter given above.
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