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  2. Effect of radiation on perceived temperature - Wikipedia

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    Thermal radiation emitted by all bodies above absolute zero (-273.15 °C). [3] [4] It differs from other forms of electromagnetic radiation such as x-rays, gamma rays, microwaves that are not related to temperature. Therefore, people constantly radiate their body heat, but at different rates depending on body and surrounding temperatures.

  3. Thermal radiation - Wikipedia

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    A kitchen oven, at a temperature about double room temperature on the absolute temperature scale (600 K vs. 300 K) radiates 16 times as much power per unit area. An object at the temperature of the filament in an incandescent light bulb —roughly 3000 K, or 10 times room temperature—radiates 10,000 times as much energy per unit area.

  4. Emissivity - Wikipedia

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    The surface of a perfect black body (with an emissivity of 1) emits thermal radiation at the rate of approximately 448 watts per square metre (W/m 2) at a room temperature of 25 °C (298 K; 77 °F). Objects have emissivities less than 1.0, and emit radiation at correspondingly lower rates.

  5. Radiative cooling - Wikipedia

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    Since outer space radiates at about a temperature of 3 K (−270.15 °C; −454.27 °F), and the sheet of paper radiates at about 300 K (27 °C; 80 °F) (around room temperature), the sheet of paper radiates more heat to the face than does the darkened cosmos. The effect is blunted by Earth's surrounding atmosphere, and particularly the water ...

  6. Schwarzschild's equation for radiative transfer - Wikipedia

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    The lapse rate (change in temperature with altitude) at the effective radiating level determines how a change in concentration will affect outgoing emissions to space. For most wavelengths, this level is in the troposphere, where temperatures decrease with increasing altitude.

  7. Stefan–Boltzmann law - Wikipedia

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    The temperature Stefan obtained was a median value of previous ones, 1950 °C and the absolute thermodynamic one 2200 K. As 2.57 4 = 43.5, it follows from the law that the temperature of the Sun is 2.57 times greater than the temperature of the lamella, so Stefan got a value of 5430 °C or 5700 K. This was the first sensible value for the ...

  8. Solar-cell efficiency - Wikipedia

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    IEC standard 61215 is used to compare the performance of cells and is designed around standard (terrestrial, temperate) temperature and conditions (STC): irradiance of 1 kW/m 2, a spectral distribution close to solar radiation through AM of 1.5 and a cell temperature 25 °C. The resistive load is varied until the peak or maximum power point ...

  9. Decay heat - Wikipedia

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    Decay heat as fraction of full power for a reactor SCRAMed from full power at time 0, using two different correlations. In a typical nuclear fission reaction, 187 MeV of energy are released instantaneously in the form of kinetic energy from the fission products, kinetic energy from the fission neutrons, instantaneous gamma rays, or gamma rays from the capture of neutrons. [7]