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The emissivity, S, is the ratio of the radiant emittance of a body to that of a blackbody at the same temperature. Kirchhoff s law requires that a = e for aH bodies at thermal equHibrium. For a blackbody, a = e = 1. Near room temperature, most clean metals have emissivities below 0.1, and most nonmetals have emissivities above 0.9. This description is of the spectraHy integrated (or total) absorptivity, reflectivity, transmissivity, and emissivity. These terms can also be defined as spectral properties, functions of wavelength or wavenumber, and the relations hold for the spectral properties as weH (71,74—76). 

This unit, most recentiy defined by the 16th CGPM in 1979, replaced the candle and, later, the new candle and a definition of the candela based on the luminous intensity of a specified projected area of a blackbody emitter at the temperature of freezing platinum. 

Radiation thermometry (visual, photoelectric, or photodiode) 500-50,000 Spectral intensity I at wavelength A Planck s radiation law, related to Boltzmann factor for radiation quanta Needs blackbody conditions or well-defined emittance... 

The star in the numerical model has an inside and an outside. The outside is defined as the limit beyond which it becomes transparent. This boundary is called the photosphere, or sphere of light, for it is here that the light that comes to us is finally emitted. It is thus the visible surface of the star, located at a certain distance R from the centre, which defines the radius and hence the size of the star. The photosphere has a certain temperature with which it is a simple matter to associate a colour, since to the first approximation it radiates as a blackbody, or perfect radiator. Indeed, the emissions from such a body depend only on its temperature. The correspondence between temperature and colour is simple. In fact, the relation between temperature and predominant wavelength (which itself codifies colour) is given by Wien s law, viz. 

The spectral emissivity, f.>. is defined as the ratio of the emission at wavelength /. of the object to that of an ideal blackbody at the same temperature and wavelength. When ty is unity, the foregoing equation becomes the Planck radiation equation for a black body. 

Comparing blackbody and SR brightness for IR microscopy Brightness, or spectral radiance, also called brilliance, is defined as... 

The emissive power of a solid Er is defined as the energy emitted by the body per unit area and per unit time. The body having a theoretical maximum emissive power at a given temperature is called a blackbody. The actual emissive power of a solid at a given temperature is less than or equal to that of the blackbody for the same temperature. Hence, we define the emissivity of a solid as the ratio of the emissive power of the solid to the emissive power of a blackbody at the same temperature, which is... 

In general, the emissivity of a solid is affected by the temperature as well as the wavelength of the radiation. The concept of monochromatic emissivity is related to the radiant emission by a solid at a specific wavelength. The monochromatic emissivity e is defined as the ratio of the monochromatic-emissive power of a solid Ex to the monochromatic-emissive power of a blackbody EbX at the same temperature and wavelength, i.e.,... 

X Parameter, defined by Eq. (1.14) Greek Symbols Xm Wavelength at which the monochromatic-emissive power of a blackbody is maximum... 

In dealing with problems of solar radiation, as opposed to blackbody radiation, the effect of the solid angle in which the radiation is confined has been examined (2-4) by considering the volume density of photons to be reduced. Landsberg(6) considers dilute radiation in the sense that the spectral distribution is retained but the radiation density is reduced. This leads to defining the temperature of a spectral component as... 

The radiative behavior of real materials generally falls short of blackbody behavior, depending on the material. Figure 8.5 shows the spectral radiancy of a real body is always less than that of a blackbody, and the deviation is inconsistent with wavelength.3 The spectral emissivity is defined as the ratio... 

For engineering practice, the spectral blackbody emissive flux qxb(T) at a surface is defined as... 

The spectral emissivity e (T) of the body for radiation at temperature T is defined as the ratio of the spectral emissive flux qx(T) of the body to the spectral blackbody emissive flux q h(T) at the same temperature. Expressed mathematically,... 

Blackbody emmissive power per unit wavelength, defined by Eq. (8-12)... 

The constant h and the hypothesis that energy is quantized in integral multiples of hv had previously been introduced by M. Planck (1900) in his study of blackbody radiation.1 In terms of the angular frequency a> defined in equation (1.2), the energy E of a photon is... 

Since in reality there is no actual blackbody radiator (for which the Planck law applies, W), but a more realistic so-called greybody radiator (W7), the value e has been defined as the quotient W / W, where e can be given values between 0 and 1 (1 = genuine blackbody). For example, soot (e > 0.95) behaves almost like a blackbody radiator, whereas MgO behaves more like a greybody radiator. 

The blackbody fractional energy distribution function is defined by... 

Range Above 1234.93 K. Above the freezing point of silver, an optical pyrometer is nsed to measnre the emitted radiant flux (radiant excitance per unit wavelength interval) of a blackbody at wavelength A. The defining equation is the Planck radiation law in the form... 

By definition, photometers do not respond to radiation in the infrared or the ultraviolet (Fig. 4-4a). They are light meters in the sense that they mimic human vision that is, they respond to photons in the visible region, similar to the light meter on a camera. A candle is a unit of luminous intensity, originally based on a standard candle or lamp. The current international unit is called a candela (sometimes still referred to as a candle ), which was previously defined as the total light intensity of 1.67 mm2 of a blackbody radiator (one that radiates maximally) at the melting temperature of pure platinum (2042 K). In 1979 the candela was redefined as the luminous intensity of a monochromatic source with a frequency of 5.40 x 1014 cycles s-1 (A, of 555 nm) emitting 0.01840 Js-1 or 0.01840 W (1.464 mW steradian-1, where W is the abbreviation for watt and steradian... 

A blackbody is defined as a perfect emitler and absorber of radiation. At a specified temperature and wavelength, no surface c.in emit more energy than a blackbody. A blackbody absorbs all incident radiation, regardless of wavelength and direction. Also, a blackbody emits radiation energy unifomily in all directions per um t area normal to direction of emission (Fig. 12-7). That is, a blackbody is a diffuse emitter. The tenti diffitse means independent of direction. The radiation energy emitted by a blackbody per unit time and per unit surface area was determined experimentally by Joseph Stefan in 1879 and expressed as... 

Therefore, we define a dimensionless quantity /x called the blackbody radiation function as... 

If all surfaces emitted radiation uniformly in all directions, the emissive power would be sufficient to quantify radiation, and we would not need to deal with intensity. The radiation emitted by a blackbody pet unit nonnal area is the same in all directions, and thus there is no directional dependence. But this is not the case for real surfaces. Before we define intensity, wc need to quantify the size of an opening in space. 

In the preceding section, we defined a blackbody as a perfect emitter and absorber of radiation and said tliat no body can emit more radiation than a blackbody at the. same temperature. Therefore, a blackbody can serve as a convenient reference in describing the emission and absorption characteristics of real surfaces. 

The emissivity of a real surface is not a constant. Rather, it varies with the temperature of the surface as well as the wavelength and tlie direction of the emitted radiation. Therefore, different emissiviiies can be defined for a surface, depending on the effects considered. The most elemental emissivity of a surface at a given lemperature is the spectral directional emissivity, which is defined as the ratio of the intensity of radiation emitted by the suiface at a specified wavelength in a speeiOed direction to the intensit) of radiation emitted by a blackbody at the same temperature at the same wavelength. That is. 

The emissivityol a surface represents the ratio of the radiation emitted by the surface at a given temperature to the radiation emilted by a blackbody at the same lemperalure. Different eitiissivilies are defined as... 

C Define the total and spectral blackbody emissive powers. How are they related to each other How do they differ ... 

C Why did we define the blackbody radiation ftitic-tioii What does it represent For whal is it used ... 

I2-3S A small surface of area A - 1 cm emits radiation as a blackbody at 1ROO K. Determine the rate at whicb radiation energy is emitted through a band defined by 0 27t and 45... 

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