Assume that your body (with temperature of 310 K) can be approximated as a blackbody. What is the typical wavelength of the radiation from your body? Is this radiation visible, infrared, X-ray, or radio

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Assume that your body (with temperature of 310 K) can be approximated as a blackbody.

What is the typical wavelength of the radiation from your body? Is this radiation visible, infrared, X-ray, or radio?

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