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    This document contains 30 questions about various topics related to solar energy and solar technology. It covers factors that affect solar radiation received on Earth's surface, differences between polar and equatorial solar energy receipt, types of solar radiation like beam and diffuse, models used to determine diffuse radiation, the solar constant, calculating sun angle and how it affects climate, angle of incidence, attenuation of solar radiation, determining local solar time, the sun's declination angle during equinoxes, factors affecting performance of flat plate collectors, efficiency of solar air heaters, what a solar dryer is, importance of solar energy storage and purpose of thermal storage, types of solar ponds, how long water stays hot in a solar water heater, how

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    This document contains 30 questions about various topics related to solar energy and solar technology. It covers factors that affect solar radiation received on Earth's surface, differences between polar and equatorial solar energy receipt, types of solar radiation like beam and diffuse, models used to determine diffuse radiation, the solar constant, calculating sun angle and how it affects climate, angle of incidence, attenuation of solar radiation, determining local solar time, the sun's declination angle during equinoxes, factors affecting performance of flat plate collectors, efficiency of solar air heaters, what a solar dryer is, importance of solar energy storage and purpose of thermal storage, types of solar ponds, how long water stays hot in a solar water heater, how

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    Unit 1 Important Questions

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    Ananya Gupta
    This document contains 30 questions about various topics related to solar energy and solar technology. It covers factors that affect solar radiation received on Earth's surface, differences between polar and equatorial solar energy receipt, types of solar radiation like beam and diffuse, models used to determine diffuse radiation, the solar constant, calculating sun angle and how it affects climate, angle of incidence, attenuation of solar radiation, determining local solar time, the sun's declination angle during equinoxes, factors affecting performance of flat plate collectors, efficiency of solar air heaters, what a solar dryer is, importance of solar energy storage and purpose of thermal storage, types of solar ponds, how long water stays hot in a solar water heater, how

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    1. What factors affect the amount of solar radiation received at a given spot on Earth's surface?

    2. Why do Earth's polar regions receive less solar energy than the equator?
    3. If polar regions receive less solar energy than the equatorial region, why don't the poles get
    colder with time while the equator gets warmer?
    4. Which type of radiation is called diffuse radiation?
    5. What is the difference between beam and diffuse radiation?
    6. What are the two models used to determine diffuse radiation?
    7. What is Solar Constant?
    8. How do you calculate sun angle?
    9. How does the angle of the sun affect climate?
    10. How do we calculate angle of incidence?
    11. What is the angle of incidence of 25?
    12. What is attenuation of solar radiation?
    13. How is local solar time determined?
    14. What are the two types of solar time?
    15. What is the sun's declination angle during equinox * 66.5 degree 0 degrees 23.5 degrees 23.5
    degrees?
    16. What are the factors affecting the performance of flat plate collector?
    17. How efficient are solar air heaters?
    18. What is solar dryer?
    19. Why solar energy storage is important?
    20. What is the purpose of thermal storage?
    21. What are the two types of solar pond?
    22. How long does water stay hot in solar water heater?
    23. How does solar water heater work at night?
    24. Which of the following processes take place in Solar distillation?
    25. What is the principle of solar still?
    26. How is sunlight concentrated in solar panel cooker?
    27. What is PV photovoltaic? Explain all its types.
    28. Write Characteristics and working principles of PV.
    29. Write all maximum power point tracking methods.
    30. What is net metering? How does it work?

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