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What about a cooking appliance?

How does one calculate efficiency for an incandescent light bulb? Assume the bulb is 40 W, has a tungsten filament at temp. ~ 2800 K. The bulb would be used for heating in a device. If we assume blackbody: From Wien's displacement law, the maximum wavelength is 9.99E-7 m. Fromt the...