black-body

Quantum mechanics wasn't discovered in the vacuum: theorists had clues in the form of data: spectral lines of hydrogen, the spectrum of black-body radiation etc.

Dark Matter Can Enlighten Minds 2008

Planck “discovered” the quantum or, more precisely, introduced the notion that energy is quantized via a theoretical attempt to explain the spectrum of black-body radiation.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

In 1859, Gustav Kirchhoff formulated the law of black-body radiation.

In 1859 | Live Granades 2009

Assuming black-body radiation, the surface radiation temperature is 390.9 W/m2, and the troposphere is 315.6 W/m2.

The "First" Assessed Likely Range for Climate Sensitivity « Climate Audit 2007

Stimulated emission is coherent with the exciting source, a “black-body” planet – only condensed phases can emit as a blackbody.

Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit 2007

Not just a vacuum in the usual sense of having very little air, but an ideal vacuum with no air, no black-body radiation, no zero-point energy, nothing but beans.

All Hail the Mighty Coffee Bean! 2007

When it melts, it is replaced by water — which looks like a black-body radiator, which absorbs 80 percent of the sun's energy.

Arctic Meltdown 2007

Snow is ironically an almost perfect black-body radiator with low thermal conductivity.

USHCN Minimum Temperature Trends « Climate Audit 2007

It is a physics model of a single shell surrounding a black-body object.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

Similarly, I thought an incremental black-body argument was being made that earth+atmosphere – earth-alone earth-alone.

Emanuel Article « Climate Audit 2007