Friday 5 December 2014

Composition and Temperature of stars.


For this project, our team is Benoit and Jimmy, and our goal is to find the composition and temperature of stars. Our question is: The diferent compositions and temperatures between the sun and Vega. We found an experiment to discover the temperature of the sun with the law of Wien and that was a success because the sun temperature's surface (photoshere), is 6000 K (Kelvin or Degrees is the same because the temperature is too hot to see a difference, Kelvin= 273+°C), and we found 6100 K. We found an other experiment for composition but for the moment it was a failure and not finished. The material necessary is a white light, arc condenser, a lens, a slit, salt in ethanol solution (to burn), a prism and screen.
 Here we have a video of the composition of stars. And with the last experiment, which recreates how we made the Newton telescope.



In the second part, we had a school outing with Mr Moulat to use a telescope and to find an other star and compare it with the composition and temperature of the sun. For this we used a Newton telescope.


 Now all we can do is wait.

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