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Brightness temperature, a Common card
Brightness temperature or radiance temperature is a measure of the intensity of electromagnetic energy coming from a source.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 55
- DEF
- 26
- Power
- 81
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 81 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Brightness temperature quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Brightness temperature card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This concept is used in radio astronomy, planetary science, materials science and ______.
Answer
climatology. This concept is used in radio astronomy, planetary science, materials science and climatology. From the Brightness temperature article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Yenko Camaro. Yenko Camaro 34,000 · C3 carbon fixation 26,000 · Estimation 16,000 · Brightness temperature 12,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In particular, it is the temperature at which a black body would have to be in order to duplicate the observed intensity of a grey body object at a frequency ν.
- This concept is used in radio astronomy, planetary science, materials science and climatology.
- The brightness temperature provides "a more physically recognizable way to describe intensity".
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Brightness temperature article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 55 and blocks with 26: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Brightness temperature (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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