Homework Help: physics

Posted by christy on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 3:40pm.

At a certain location, the solar power per unit area reaching Earth's surface is 200 W/m^2, averaged over a 24-hour day.If the average power requirement in your home is 2.8 kW and you can convert solar power to electric power with 8.0 % efficiency, how large a collector area will you need to meet all your household energy requirements from solar energy?

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