The human skin is selective when it comes to the absorption of the solar radiation that strikes

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The human skin is “selective” when it comes to the absorption of the solar radiation that strikes it perpendicularly. The skin absorbs only 50 percent of the incident radiation with wavelengths between λ1 = 0.517 mm and λ2 = 1.552 mm. The radiation with wavelengths shorter than λ1 and longer than λ2 is fully absorbed. The solar surface may be modeled as a blackbody with effective surface temperature of 5800 K. Calculate the fraction of the incident solar radiation that is absorbed by the human skin.

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Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences

ISBN: 978-0078027680

5th edition

Authors: Yunus A. Cengel, Robert H. Turner, John M. Cimbala

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