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Black Body

  • Hoffmann D
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2009), 36-39
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70626-7_13
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Abstract

A black body was first defined by Gustav R. Kirchhoff (1824–87) in 1859 as an object that absorbs all radiation falling upon it. Such a conception of an ideal black body was crucial for understanding heat radiation and its laws. Since a completely black body...

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Hoffmann, D. (2009). Black Body. In Compendium of Quantum Physics (pp. 36–39). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70626-7_13

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