Physics A-Level
Black body
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Absorbs all incident radiation and emits a continuous spectrum whose shape depends only on absolute temperature.
Absorbs and emits all wavelengths, and its spectrum depends only on temperature.
Topics that use Black body
Related terms
- Intensity–wavelength curve
- Inverse-square law
- Peak wavelength
- Stefan constant
- Stefan's law
- Wien's displacement law
- Black-body radiator
- Isotropic-emission assumption
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