Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Infrared Emissions

Heat is energy in transitory form that flows due to temperature difference. Unlike heat transmitted by thermal conveyance or thermal convection, radiation can propagate through a vacuum.

The concept of emissivity is imperative in understanding the infrared emissions of objects. This is a material goods of a surface which describes how its thermal emissions deviate from the ideal of a blackbody. To further explain, two objects at the same physical temperature will not 'appear' the same temperature in an infrared figure if they have differing emissivities.

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