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nydus/The Theory of Heat RadiationPublic

This text examines the physical distinction between heat conduction and heat radiation, noting that radiation is independent of the medium through which it passes. It establishes that heat rays are physically identical to light rays and applies the principles of experimental optics to the study of thermal radiation.

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The rays which at the time t belong to the interval (ν,dν) and leave this interval in the time δt on account of reflection from the moving reflector, are simply those rays which strike the moving reflector in the time δt. For the change in color which such a ray undergoes is, from [eqn:(83)] (83) and [eqn:(91)] (91), large compared with dν, the width of the whole interval. Hence we need only calculate the energy, which in the time δt is transmitted to the reflector by the rays in the interval (ν,dν).

For an elementary pencil, which falls on the element dσ of the

reflecting surface at the angle of incidence θ, this energy is, according to [eqn:(88)] (88) and [eqn:(5)] (5), Iδt=2𝖪νdσcosθdΩdνδt=2𝖪νdσsinθcosθdθdϕdνδt. Hence we obtain for the total monochromatic radiation, which falls on the whole surface F of the reflector, by integration with respect to ϕ from 0 to 2π, with respect to θ from 0 to π2, and with respect to dσ from 0 to F, 2πF𝖪νdνδt.\Label[eqn](92)\upshape (92) Thus this radiant energy leaves, in the time δt, the interval of frequencies (ν,dν) considered.

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