[Quantumcat (OP)]

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.

Am I dead? Am I alive? I'm both!

[Observer101]

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.

[gsmollin]

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.