A black body is at 727°C. It emits energy at a rate which is proportional to
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Amount of heat energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body is directly
proportional to fourth power of absolute temperature.
According to Stefan's law,

or
where
is constant of proportionality and called Stefan's constant. Its value is

Hence 

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