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Radiation makes it impossible to stand close to a hot lava flow. Calculate the rate of heat transfer by radiation from 1 . 00  m 2 of 1200º C fresh lava into 30 . C surroundings, assuming lava’s emissivity is 1.00.

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(a) Calculate the rate of heat transfer by radiation from a car radiator at 110 ° C into a 50.0º C environment, if the radiator has an emissivity of 0.750 and a 1.20 -m 2 surface area. (b) Is this a significant fraction of the heat transfer by an automobile engine? To answer this, assume a horsepower of 200 hp 1.5 kW and the efficiency of automobile engines as 25%.

Find the net rate of heat transfer by radiation from a skier standing in the shade, given the following. She is completely clothed in white (head to foot, including a ski mask), the clothes have an emissivity of 0.200 and a surface temperature of 10 . C , the surroundings are at 15 . 0ºC size 12{ - "15" "." "0°C"} {} , and her surface area is 1 . 60 m 2 size 12{1 "." "60"`m rSup { size 8{2} } } {} .

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Suppose you walk into a sauna that has an ambient temperature of 50 .0ºC . (a) Calculate the rate of heat transfer to you by radiation given your skin temperature is 37 .0ºC , the emissivity of skin is 0.98, and the surface area of your body is 1 .50 m 2 . (b) If all other forms of heat transfer are balanced (the net heat transfer is zero), at what rate will your body temperature increase if your mass is 75.0 kg?

Thermography is a technique for measuring radiant heat and detecting variations in surface temperatures that may be medically, environmentally, or militarily meaningful.(a) What is the percent increase in the rate of heat transfer by radiation from a given area at a temperature of 34.0ºC compared with that at 33 . 0ºC , such as on a person’s skin? (b) What is the percent increase in the rate of heat transfer by radiation from a given area at a temperature of 34.0ºC compared with that at 20.0ºC , such as for warm and cool automobile hoods?

A thermograph of the chest area of a patient is shown. There are different colors showing different thermal regions.
Artist’s rendition of a thermograph of a patient’s upper body, showing the distribution of heat represented by different colors.

(a) 1.31%

(b) 20.5%

The Sun radiates like a perfect black body with an emissivity of exactly 1. (a) Calculate the surface temperature of the Sun, given that it is a sphere with a 7 . 00 × 10 8 -m size 12{7 "." "00" times "10" rSup { size 8{8} } "-m"} {} radius that radiates 3 . 80 × 10 26  W size 12{3 "." "80" times "10" rSup { size 8{"26"} } `W} {} into 3-K space. (b) How much power does the Sun radiate per square meter of its surface? (c) How much power in watts per square meter is that value at the distance of Earth, 1 . 50 × 10 11  m size 12{1 "." "50" times "10" rSup { size 8{"11"} } `m} {} away? (This number is called the solar constant.)

A large body of lava from a volcano has stopped flowing and is slowly cooling. The interior of the lava is at 1200ºC size 12{"1200°C"} {} , its surface is at 450ºC , and the surroundings are at 27 . 0ºC size 12{"27" "." "0°C"} {} . (a) Calculate the rate at which energy is transferred by radiation from 1 . 00  m 2 of surface lava into the surroundings, assuming the emissivity is 1.00. (b) Suppose heat conduction to the surface occurs at the same rate. What is the thickness of the lava between the 450ºC surface and the 1200ºC interior, assuming that the lava’s conductivity is the same as that of brick?

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(b) 4.2 cm

Calculate the temperature the entire sky would have to be in order to transfer energy by radiation at 1000 W/m 2 —about the rate at which the Sun radiates when it is directly overhead on a clear day. This value is the effective temperature of the sky, a kind of average that takes account of the fact that the Sun occupies only a small part of the sky but is much hotter than the rest. Assume that the body receiving the energy has a temperature of 27 . 0ºC size 12{"27" "." "0°C"} {} .

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Source:  OpenStax, Physics 105: adventures in physics. OpenStax CNX. Dec 02, 2015 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11916/1.1
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