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minus-squareemergencyfoodlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoWouldn’t brightness be proportional to the square root of the amount of light released? Also they didn’t mention the mass of the wax in the two candles.
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoThat’s right, light goes out in all directions, not all focused towards your eye. So the 4x as bright candle burns 16x as fast? I assumed mass is kept constant. Or it would be, “the candle that burns four times as bright is really heavy.”
Wouldn’t brightness be proportional to the square root of the amount of light released? Also they didn’t mention the mass of the wax in the two candles.
That’s right, light goes out in all directions, not all focused towards your eye. So the 4x as bright candle burns 16x as fast?
I assumed mass is kept constant. Or it would be, “the candle that burns four times as bright is really heavy.”