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Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: Quantumcat on 20/09/2004 01:16:22

Title: Black Body Radiation
Post by: Quantumcat on 20/09/2004 01:16:22

What do you guys know about black body radiation? Feel free to jabber on if this is a field of particular interest! Doing physics assignment thingo.

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Title: Re: Black Body Radiation
Post by: Observer101 on 20/09/2004 05:53:39

The spectrum of radation emitted from any matter above absoulut zero, the peak of the spectrum moving towards shorter wavelenths with increasing temprature and overall intensity increasing also with the temp.

Title: Re: Black Body Radiation
Post by: gsmollin on 20/09/2004 18:42:31

Standard atomic physics subject. Google "black body radiation" gets 406,000 hits. Here's the first one:

http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/252/black_body_radiation.html

Pretty good, goes through the whole historical development.