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  2. Emissivity - Wikipedia

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    Emissivity of a body at a given temperature is the ratio of the total emissive power of a body to the total emissive power of a perfectly black body at that temperature. Following Planck's law , the total energy radiated increases with temperature while the peak of the emission spectrum shifts to shorter wavelengths.

  3. Thermal emittance - Wikipedia

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    Thermal emittance or thermal emissivity is the ratio of the radiant emittance of heat of a specific object or surface to that of a standard black body.Emissivity and emittivity are both dimensionless quantities given in the range of 0 to 1, representing the comparative/relative emittance with respect to a blackbody operating in similar conditions, but emissivity refers to a material property ...

  4. Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation - Wikipedia

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    Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation has a refinement in that not only is thermal emissivity equal to absorptivity, it is equal in detail. Consider a leaf. It is a poor absorber of green light (around 470 nm), which is why it looks green. By the principle of detailed balance, it is also a poor emitter of green light.

  5. Black-body radiation - Wikipedia

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    Applying the Stefan–Boltzmann law, = (), where A and T are the body surface area and temperature, is the emissivity, and T 0 is the ambient temperature. The total surface area of an adult is about 2 m 2 , and the mid- and far-infrared emissivity of skin and most clothing is near unity, as it is for most nonmetallic surfaces.

  6. Thermal radiation - Wikipedia

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    Thermal radiation is the emission of electromagnetic waves from all matter that has a temperature greater than absolute zero. [5] [2] Thermal radiation reflects the conversion of thermal energy into electromagnetic energy. Thermal energy is the kinetic energy of random movements of atoms and molecules in matter. It is present in all matter of ...

  7. Planck's law - Wikipedia

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    When there is thermodynamic equilibrium at temperature T, the cavity radiation from the walls has that unique universal value, so that I ν,Y (T Y) = B ν (T). Further, one may define the emissivity ε ν,X (T X) of the material of the body X just so that at thermodynamic equilibrium at temperature T X = T, one has I ν,X (T X) = I ν,X (T ...

  8. Effective temperature - Wikipedia

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    The effective temperature of the Sun (5778 kelvins) is the temperature a black body of the same size must have to yield the same total emissive power.. The effective temperature of a star is the temperature of a black body with the same luminosity per surface area (F Bol) as the star and is defined according to the Stefan–Boltzmann law F Bol = σT eff 4.

  9. Low emissivity - Wikipedia

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    Low emissivity (low e or low thermal emissivity) refers to a surface condition that emits low levels of radiant thermal (heat) energy. All materials absorb, reflect, and emit radiant energy according to Planck's law but here, the primary concern is a special wavelength interval of radiant energy, namely thermal radiation of materials.