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    Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted by the thermal motion of particles in matter. All matter with a temperature greater than absolute...
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    Black-body radiation is the thermal electromagnetic radiation within, or surrounding, a body in thermodynamic equilibrium with its environment, emitted...
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    In heat transfer, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation refers to wavelength-specific radiative emission and absorption by a material body in thermodynamic...
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    thermal radiation. Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation that most commonly includes both visible radiation (light) and infrared radiation,...
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    ionizing radiation. It is still to be proven that non-thermal effects of radiation of much lower frequencies (microwave, millimetre and radiowave radiation) entail...
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    submarines. Thermal radiation is a common synonym for infrared radiation emitted by objects at temperatures often encountered on Earth. Thermal radiation refers...
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    Sun, some thermal radiation consists of infrared in the mid-infrared region, much longer than in sunlight. Black-body, or thermal, radiation is continuous:...
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    law (also Planck radiation law: 1305 ) describes the spectral density of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a black body in thermal equilibrium at a...
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    In climate science, longwave radiation (LWR) is electromagnetic thermal radiation emitted by Earth's surface, atmosphere, and clouds. It may also be referred...
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    Greenhouse effect (category Atmospheric radiation)
    objects with a temperature above absolute zero emit thermal radiation. The wavelengths of thermal radiation emitted by the Sun and Earth differ because their...
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    is classified into various mechanisms, such as thermal conduction, thermal convection, thermal radiation, and transfer of energy by phase changes. Engineers...
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    total energy thermal radiation: 35% of total energy ionizing radiation: 5% of total energy (more in a neutron bomb) residual radiation: 5–10% of total...
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    Thermography (redirect from Thermal scope)
    (IRT), thermal video or thermal imaging, is a process where a thermal camera captures and creates an image of an object by using infrared radiation emitted...
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  • Earth by the Sun. A less obvious example is thermal radiation from the human body. A region with greater thermal energy (heat) corresponds with greater molecular...
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    transmitted radiation. It may get dissipated into other microscopic motions within the matter, coming to thermal equilibrium and manifesting itself as thermal energy...
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    Shortwave radiation (SW) is thermal radiation in the optical spectrum, including visible (VIS), near-ultraviolet (UV), and near-infrared (NIR) spectra...
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    Black body (redirect from Plank radiation)
    incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence. The radiation emitted by a black body in thermal equilibrium with its environment...
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  • theory permits no such loss) and the radiation emitted by a black hole is probably the usual thermal radiation.[citation needed] If this is correct,...
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    which infers temperature from a portion of the thermal radiation sometimes called black-body radiation emitted by the object being measured. They are...
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    The term "thermal energy" is often used ambiguously in physics and engineering. It can denote several different physical concepts, including: Internal...
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    can be applied in weatherization applications to reduce incoming thermal radiation in summer and loss in winter. When well insulated, a building is:...
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    wavelength of the thermal radiation. The lower the temperature, the longer or larger the wavelength of the thermal radiation. For visible radiation, hot objects...
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    Earth's surface to receive electromagnetic energy from the Sun, and for thermal radiation from the surface to leave to space. Atmospheric windows are useful...
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    internal thermal equilibrium. Heat can flow into or out of a closed system by way of thermal conduction or of thermal radiation to or from a thermal reservoir...
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    after him, which include Kirchhoff's circuit laws, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, and Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award...
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    distance determines the temperature of a surface from the amount of the thermal radiation it emits, a process known as pyrometry, a type of radiometry. The...
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    Stefan–Boltzmann law, also known as Stefan's law, describes the intensity of the thermal radiation emitted by matter in terms of that matter's temperature. It is named...
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    distribution law) is a law of physics used to describe the spectrum of thermal radiation (frequently called the blackbody function). This law was first derived...
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  • loses heat by thermal radiation. As Planck's law describes, every physical body spontaneously and continuously emits electromagnetic radiation. Radiative...
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  • Thermal infrared spectroscopy (TIR spectroscopy) is the subset of infrared spectroscopy that deals with radiation emitted in the infrared part of the...
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