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Question
What is solar constant? What is the value of solar constant?
Solution
The amount of solar energy received per second on one square metre area of the near-earth space at an average distance between the sun and the earth is called the solar constant. Its value is 1.4 kJ/s/m2 or 1.4 kW/m2.
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