• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    7 months ago

    Wouldn’t brightness be proportional to the square root of the amount of light released? Also they didn’t mention the mass of the wax in the two candles.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
      2·
      7 months ago

      That’s right, light goes out in all directions, not all focused towards your eye. So the 4x as bright candle burns 16x as fast?

      I assumed mass is kept constant. Or it would be, “the candle that burns four times as bright is really heavy.”