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    The document describes an experiment to verify Stefan's law of radiation. Stefan's law states that the power radiated from a black body is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature. The experiment involves measuring the voltage, current, resistance, and power output of an electric bulb filament as the voltage is increased incrementally. Graphing the logarithm of power versus the logarithm of resistance yields a slope that should equal 4 according to Stefan's law. The results of the experiment show a slope of 3.75, close to 4, thereby verifying Stefan's law.

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    The document describes an experiment to verify Stefan's law of radiation. Stefan's law states that the power radiated from a black body is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature. The experiment involves measuring the voltage, current, resistance, and power output of an electric bulb filament as the voltage is increased incrementally. Graphing the logarithm of power versus the logarithm of resistance yields a slope that should equal 4 according to Stefan's law. The results of the experiment show a slope of 3.75, close to 4, thereby verifying Stefan's law.

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    The document describes an experiment to verify Stefan's law of radiation. Stefan's law states that the power radiated from a black body is proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature. The experiment involves measuring the voltage, current, resistance, and power output of an electric bulb filament as the voltage is increased incrementally. Graphing the logarithm of power versus the logarithm of resistance yields a slope that should equal 4 according to Stefan's law. The results of the experiment show a slope of 3.75, close to 4, thereby verifying Stefan's law.

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    Thermal Laboratory

    Verification of Stefan’s Law


    OBJECT:

    To verify Stefan’s law of radiation.

    APPARATUS USED:

    Complete set-up make Raman consists of one 0- 6 V regulated power supply, Filament bulb 6V, Digital
    Voltmeter and Ammeter.

    PRINCIPLE:

    According to Stefan’s law power radiated from a black body is proportional to the fourth power of its
    absolute temperature.

    i.e. P µT4

    or log P µ 4 log T (1)

    Resistance of the tungsten filament of the electric bulb is

    R µT

    Or log R µ log T (2)

    Fron equation (1) and (2)

    log P/log R = 4

    Department of Physics, IIT Roorkee 1


    Thermal Laboratory

    PROCEDURE:

    1. Connect the set-up with main’s and put the power supply at anticlockwise minimum position.
    2. Switch ‘ON’ the set-up and increase the power supply voltage till the bulb start glowing. Note
    the voltmeter and ammeter readings. Record these readings in table as shown below.
    3. Increase the power supply voltage in steps say 1, 1.5, 2.0 ……... 5 and note the corresponding
    current for each setting of voltage. Record these readings in table.
    4. Calculate filament resistance R = V/I and Power radiated P = VI. Record these calculations in
    table.
    5. Calculate log R and log P .Record these readings in table as shown below.
    6. Plot a graph
    7. Plot graph between log P on Y-axis and log R on X-axis.

    OBSERVATION AND TABULATIONS:

    S. No. Filament Filament Filament Power log R Log P


    Voltage Current Resistance Radiated
    Vf Volt If Amp. R = V/I P = VI
    1.
    2.
    3.

    CALCULATION:

    Calculate slop from the graph as BC/AB =

    RESULTS:

    Slop of the graph = 4 , which verifies the Stefan’s law


    log P

    4 C

    0 A B
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
    -1 log R
    -2
    Department of Physics, IIT Roorkee 2
    -3

    -4 Fig. 1 Graph log P Vs log R


    Thermal Laboratory

    OBSERVATION AND TABULATIONS:

    S. No. Filament Filament Filament Power log R Log P


    Voltage Current Resistance Radiated
    Vf Volt If Amp. R = V/I P = VI
    1. 1.0 0.21 4.76 0.21 0.678 -0.678
    2. 1.5 0.25 6.00 0.375 0.778 -0.426
    3. 2.0 0.27 7.41 0.54 0.870 -0.268
    4. 2.5 0.31 8.07 0.78 0.907 -0.111
    5. 3.0 0.33 9.09 0.99 0.959 -0.005
    6. 3.5 0.35 10.00 1.23 1.000 +0.088
    7. 4.0 0.38 10.53 1.52 1.122 +0.182
    8. 4.5 0.41 10.98 1.85 1.040 +0.266
    9. 5.0 0.43 11.63 2.15 1.066 +0.332
    10. 5.5 0.45 12.22 2.48 1.087 +0.394
    11. 6.0 0.47 12.77 2.82 1.106 +0.450

    Conclusions:

    1. From Graph the slope of the curve is 3.75 close the 4. Hence, verify the Stefan’s Law

    Department of Physics, IIT Roorkee 3


    Thermal Laboratory

    Department of Physics, IIT Roorkee 4

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