Neutrinos are extremely light particles and rarely interact with matter. The Sun emits neutrinos, each with an energy of 8×10−14J and reaches a flux density of 1011 neutrinos /(scm2) at Earth's surface.
In the movie 2012, neutrinos have mutated and now are completely absorbed by the Earth's inner core, heating it up. Model the inner core as a sphere of radius 1200km, density 12.8g/cm3, and a specific heat of 0.400J/gK. The time scale, in seconds, that it will take to heat up the inner core by 1∘C is t=1×10N where N is an integer. What is the value of N ?
Given constants:
- Proton mass, mp=1.67⋅10−27kg
- Neutron mass, mn=1.67⋅10−27kg
- Electron mass, me=9.11⋅10−31kg
- Avogadro's constant, N0=6.02⋅1023mol−1
- Universal gas constant, R=8.31J/(mol⋅K)
- Boltzmann's constant, kB=1.38⋅10−23J/K
- Electron charge magnitude, e=1.60⋅10−19C
- 1 electron volt, 1eV=1.60⋅10−19J
- Speed of light, c=3.00⋅108m/s
- Universal Gravitational constant,
G=6.67⋅10−11(N⋅m2)/kg2
- Solar Mass
M⊙=1.988⋅1030kg
- Acceleration due to gravity, g=9.8m/s2
- 1 unified atomic mass unit,
1u=1.66⋅10−27kg=931MeV/c2
- Planck's constant,
h=6.63⋅10−34J⋅s=4.41⋅10−15eV⋅s
- Permittivity of free space,
ϵ0=8.85⋅10−12C2/(N⋅m2)
- Coulomb's law constant,
k=4πϵ01=8.99⋅109(N⋅m2)/C2
- Permeability of free space,
μ0=4π⋅10−7T⋅m/A
- Magnetic constant,
4πμ0=1⋅10−7(T⋅m)/A
- 1 atmospheric pressure,
1atm=1.01⋅105N/m2=1.01⋅105Pa
- Wien's displacement constant, b=2.9. 10−3m⋅K
- Stefan-Boltzmann constant,
σ=5.67⋅10−8W/m2/K4