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  2. Thermal radiation - Wikipedia

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    The temperature determines the wavelength distribution of the electromagnetic radiation. The distribution of power that a black body emits with varying frequency is described by Planck's law. At any given temperature, there is a frequency f max at which the power emitted is a maximum.

  3. Planck's law - Wikipedia

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    Planck radiation has a maximum intensity at a wavelength that depends on the temperature of the body. For example, at room temperature (~ 300 K), a body emits thermal radiation that is mostly infrared and invisible. At higher temperatures the amount of infrared radiation increases and can be felt as heat, and more visible radiation is emitted ...

  4. Electromagnetic radiation - Wikipedia

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    Each has an energy related to the frequency of the wave given by Planck's relation E = hf, where E is the energy of the photon, h is the Planck constant, 6.626 × 10 −34 J·s, and f is the frequency of the wave. [40] In a medium (other than vacuum), velocity factor or refractive index are considered, depending on frequency and application ...

  5. Heat transfer physics - Wikipedia

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    Using this plane-wave displacement, the equation of motion becomes the eigenvalue equation [15] [16] (,) = (), where M is the diagonal mass matrix and D is the harmonic dynamical matrix. Solving this eigenvalue equation gives the relation between the angular frequency ω p and the wave vector κ p , and this relation is called the phonon ...

  6. Wien's displacement law - Wikipedia

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    Each temperature curve peaks at a different wavelength and Wien's law describes the shift of that peak. There are a variety of ways of associating a characteristic wavelength or frequency with the Planck black-body emission spectrum. Each of these metrics scales similarly with temperature, a principle referred to as Wien's displacement law.

  7. List of equations in wave theory - Wikipedia

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    The group velocity is the rate at which the wave envelope, i.e. the changes in amplitude, propagates. The wave envelope is the profile of the wave amplitudes; all transverse displacements are bound by the envelope profile.

  8. Vibrational temperature - Wikipedia

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    The vibrational temperature is commonly used in thermodynamics, to simplify certain equations.It has units of temperature and is defined as = ~ = where is the Boltzmann constant, is the speed of light, ~ is the wavenumber, and (Greek letter nu) is the characteristic frequency of the oscillator.

  9. Dispersion relation - Wikipedia

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    The equation says the matter wave frequency in vacuum varies with wavenumber (= /) in the non-relativistic approximation. The variation has two parts: a constant part due to the de Broglie frequency of the rest mass ( ℏ ω 0 = m 0 c 2 {\displaystyle \hbar \omega _{0}=m_{0}c^{2}} ) and a quadratic part due to kinetic energy.