New posts in Thermal Radiation

Why does each mode of the electromagnetic field have two degrees of freedom?

Why doesn't the brightness of a bulb change with time?

Why is a black body visible?

Why can a regular infrared camera not show temperature (thermography)?

Is there a thermodynamic heuristic argument on why a redshifted blackbody spectrum is a blackbody at a new temperature?

Why does energy have to be emitted in quanta?

Why does the temperature of an object rise to a certain level and stop under sunlight?

Can you ride Hawking radiation away from a black hole?

How much additional mass does the Earth gain each day from solar radiation?

Why do we feel heat from infrared light but not from shorter wavelengths?