You are driving on the highway, and you come to a steep downhill section. As you roll down the hill, you take your foot off the
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The intensity is defined as the ratio between the power emitted by the source and the area through which the power is calculated:
(1)
where
P is the power
A is the area
In our problem, the intensity is
. At a distance of r=6.0 m from the source, the area intercepted by the radiation (which propagates in all directions) is equal to the area of a sphere of radius r, so:
And so if we re-arrange (1) we find the power emitted by the source:
where
P is the power
A is the area
In our problem, the intensity is
And so if we re-arrange (1) we find the power emitted by the source: