Calculate the median wavelength median for sunlight, treating the Sun as a 5800-K blackbody (see Equation

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Calculate the median wavelength λmedian for sunlight, treating the Sun as a 5800-K blackbody (see Equation 34.2b). Use your result to decide whether zinc selenide, with band gap 3.6 eV, would make a good photovoltaic cell. 

AmedianT = 4.11 mm K (34.2b)

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Essential University Physics

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Authors: Richard Wolfsonby

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