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Which principle could be used to help calculate the amount of radiation emitted by a star?

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NEWTON's LAW of universal gravitation
Red shift of light from other galaxies
The fact that every element of atomic number greater than 83 is radioactive
Mass-energy equivalence

Solution :Stars are huge nuclear-fusion reactions. When nuclei fuse, the mass of the product nucleus is less than that combined MASSES of the original nuclei. The "missing" mass has become energy, which is radiated away. Einstein's famous mass-energy equivalence equation. `E=mc^(2)`, can be used to calculate the amount of energy resulting from a fusion reaction.


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