Properties of sunlight Assignment

1. What are the properties of sunlight?

2. What are the important characteristics of the incident solar energy?
3. What are 3 important surface features of the Sun?
4. What is sunlight?
5. What determines the number of electrons produced so that solar cells produce current?
6. How is the total power density emitted from a light source can be calculated?
7. How much solar radiation does the earth receive?
8. As sunlight enters the earth’s atmosphere, some of it gets absorbed, some is scattered and
some passes through and reaches the earth’s surface. What are different molecules in the
atmosphere absorb significant amounts of sunlight at certain wavelengths?
9. Mention the type of radiation from sunlight!
10. What is Air Mass (AM) and explain briefly the method to determine the AM?
11. What is the difference between radiation and irradiance?