A human body has a surface area of approximately 1 m 2 . The normal body temperature is 10 K above the surrounding room temperature to. Take the room temperature to be T 0 = 300 K. For T 0 = 300 K, and the value of 
=460 Wm -2 (where a is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant). Which of the following option is/are correct?
, then to maintain the same body temperature the same (living) human being needs to radiate 
more energy per unit time.
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• Heat radiated by body remains unchanged even after change in room temperature.
• Energy lost by the radiation depends upon the surface area.
• From Wien's law 
= constant
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