Gen. CHEM L1
Gen. CHEM L1
Gen. CHEM L1
Pilani Campus
• Heated body emits radiation. The energy emitted per unit area per second,
called the emissive power, is a function of the wavelength (or frequency),
and temperature
• Black body – one which absorbs all the radiation that falls on it (and emits
it all back when sufficiently hot)
• Let J(λ, T) be the emissive power of a black body.
What is the form of J(λ, T)?
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Wien, in his formulation guessed the qualitative trend at short wavelengths (high
frequencies), but failed quantitatively at long wavelengths.
e−β c /λ T
ρ(λ , T )d λ ∝ 5
dλ
λ
8πhc dλ
ρ(λ , T )d λ=( )
λ 5 e h c /λ kT −1