The temperature of your skin is approximately 35C degrees. What is the wavelength at which the peak occurs in the radiation emitted from your skin?

2 answers

Use the Wien displacement law.

Lambda(max) * T = -0.3 cm*K

T in this case be in Kelvin, and therefore 308 K.

Solve for Lambda(max), the wavelength with the most emission per unit wavelength
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