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Black body radiation

Planck's law of black-body radiation


Plank's law

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Bν(T) is the spectral radiance (the power per unit solid angle and per unit of area normal to
the propagation) density of frequency ν radiation per unit frequency at thermal equilibrium
at temperature T.
h is the Planck constant;
c is the speed of light in a vacuum;
k is the Boltzmann constant;
ν is the frequency of the electromagnetic radiation;
T is the absolute temperature of the body.

For a black body surface the spectral radiance density (defined per unit of area normal to the
propagation) is independent of the angle of emission with respect to the normal. However,
this means that, following Lambert's cosine law, is the radiance density per unit
area of emitting surface as the surface area involved in generating the radiance is increased
by a factor with respect to an area normal to the propagation direction. At oblique
angles, the solid angle spans involved do get smaller, resulting in lower aggregate intensities.

Wien's displacement law

Wien's displacement law shows how the spectrum of black-body radiation at any temperature
is related to the spectrum at any other temperature. If we know the shape of the spectrum at
one temperature, we can calculate the shape at any other temperature. Spectral intensity can
be expressed as a function of wavelength or of frequency.

A consequence of Wien's displacement law is that the wavelength at which the intensity per
unit wavelength of the radiation produced by a black body is at a maximum, , is a
function only of the temperature:

where the constant b, known as Wien's displacement constant, is equal to


−3

2.897 7729(17) × 10  K m

Planck's law was also stated above as a function of frequency. The intensity maximum for
this is given by
.

Stefan–Boltzmann law

By integrating over the frequency the integrated radiance is

by using with and with

being the Stefan–Boltzmann constant. The

radiance is then

per unit of emitting surface.

On a side note, at a distance d, the intensity per area of radiating surface is the useful
expression

when the receiving surface is perpendicular to the radiation.

By subsequently integrating over the solid angle (where ) the Stefan–Boltzmann


law is calculated, stating that the power j* emitted per unit area of the surface of a black
body is directly proportional to the fourth power of its absolute temperature:

by using
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