If you were to walk briefly in space without aspacesuit


If you were to walk briefly in space without aspacesuit while far from the Sun (as an astronaut does in the movie2001), you would feel the cold of space -- while youradiated energy, you would absorb almost none from yourenvironment. Assume that your emmisivity is 0.90, the surface areaof the average human body to be about 2 m2, and the skintemperature to be about 300 K.

(a) At what rate would you lose energy?

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(b) How much energy would you lose in 35 s?

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