Earth travels around the Sun in an elliptical orbit. Because of its elliptical orbit, Earth is not the same distance from the Sun at all times. When Earth is closer to the Sun, the amount of solar power that arrives at Earth's surface is greater. Total solar irradiance, also referred to as solar intensity, is defined as the total solar power received by a unit surface area and is measured in units of watts per square meter. The Sun's power output is 3.86 x 1026 W. The distance from Earth to the Sun is 0.9813 au when Earth is the closest, at perihelion, and 1.0160 au when Earth is the farthest, at aphelion. Calculate the average total solar irradiance Itop at the top of Earth's atmosphere. Express your answer to 4 significant figures. Itop = W/m²

quantum mechanics or quantum physics is physics of very small objects (particles) and physical entities.

quantum physics has some parallels to our macro world and some pretty unique ideas which theoretically and mathematically proven to be true even though we will never be able to access them because of our size.

there are many types of particles: subatomic, elementary etc.

subatomic means they are smaller than atom, elementary means they are at the very basis of everything.

subatomic particles are for eg. protons, neutrons but not electrons.

elementary particles are categorised into 3 groups by what they do.

these 3 groups are quarks, leptons and bosons.

light for example is a particle more precisely a photon a part of leptons.

proton (subatomic particle) is made out of 2 up quarks and 1 down quark each of these has a fractional charge like . (i crazy)

most famous scientist who contributed to this physics are:

the topic itself us understand a lot and will probably be vastly used in the future (quantum computers, understanding the big bang,

we also must not forget quantum effects like:

and there is more. but probably too much for this answer to be consistent due to my average understanding of this topic.

hope this you understand quantum mechanics a little more. i'm not an expert in the topic (so don't be like wth if you are an expert) but i'm very interested in it.

anyways quantum physics is a very hard topic (harder than physics (perhaps)) therefore searching for every information there is about it and learning it is unfortunately impossible (you can only specialise into 1 - 3 things or more (perhaps

have fun and i wish you luck!

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i think it's 35 meters

i already answered it by 34/s