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  2. Stefan–Boltzmann law - Wikipedia

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    Following Bartoli, Boltzmann considered an ideal heat engine using electromagnetic radiation instead of an ideal gas as working matter. The law was almost immediately experimentally verified. Heinrich Weber in 1888 pointed out deviations at higher temperatures, but perfect accuracy within measurement uncertainties was confirmed up to ...

  3. Pictet's experiment - Wikipedia

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    Tyndall's illustration of the experiment. Pictet's experiment is the demonstration of the reflection of heat and the apparent reflection of cold in a series of experiments [1] performed in 1790 (reported in English in 1791 in An Essay on Fire [2]) by Marc-Auguste Pictet—ten years before the discovery of infrared heating of the Earth by the Sun. [3] The apparatus for most of the experiments ...

  4. Thermal radiation - Wikipedia

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    Radiation waves may travel in unusual patterns compared to conduction heat flow. Radiation allows waves to travel from a heated body through a cold non-absorbing or partially absorbing medium and reach a warmer body again. [14] An example is the case of the radiation waves that travel from the Sun to the Earth.

  5. Leslie cube - Wikipedia

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    In the experiments of Macedonio Melloni, it was found that the maximum rate of radiation was at 16 coats. Leslie, John (1804). An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature and Propagation of Heat. Edinburgh: J. Mawman. John Leslie. Leslie, John (1813). A Short Account of Experiments and Instruments, Depending on the Relations of Air to Heat and ...

  6. Emissivity - Wikipedia

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    The surface absorbs sunlight nearly completely, but has a low thermal emissivity so that it loses very little heat. Ordinary black surfaces also absorb sunlight efficiently, but they emit thermal radiation copiously. Solar heat collectors Similarly, solar heat collectors lose heat by emitting thermal radiation.

  7. Heat transfer - Wikipedia

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    Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy between physical systems. Heat transfer is classified into various mechanisms, such as thermal conduction, thermal convection, thermal radiation, and transfer of energy by phase changes.

  8. Newton's law of cooling - Wikipedia

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    In 2020, Maruyama and Moriya repeated Newton's experiments with modern apparatus, and they applied modern data reduction techniques. [4] In particular, these investigators took account of thermal radiation at high temperatures (as for the molten metals Newton used), and they accounted for buoyancy effects on the air flow.

  9. Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation - Wikipedia

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    Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887) . In heat transfer, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation refers to wavelength-specific radiative emission and absorption by a material body in thermodynamic equilibrium, including radiative exchange equilibrium.