Answer: 100 suns
Explanation:
We can solve this with the following relation:
Where:
is the diameter of a dime
is the diameter of the Sun
is the distance between the Sun and the pinhole
is the amount of dimes that fit in a distance between the sunball and the pinhole
Finding :
This is roughly the diameter of the Sun
Now, the distance between the Earth and the Sun is one astronomical unit (1 AU), which is equal to:
So, we have to divide this distance between in order to find how many suns could it fit in this distance:
The average kinetic energy of a gas particle is directly proportional to the temperature. An increase in temperature increases the speed in which the gas molecules move. All gases at a given temperature have the same average kinetic energy. Lighter gas molecules move faster than heavier molecules.
