Q.State and prove Kirchhoff's law of heat radiation.
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Good absorbers of radiation are correspondingly good emitters — this proportionality is exactly the black-body emissive power.
Statement: At a given temperature, for radiation of a particular wavelength, the ratio of the emissive power to the absorptive power is the same for all bodies and is equal to the emissive power of a perfectly black body at that temperature:
Proof: Consider a body placed inside an enclosure whose walls are maintained at temperature , in thermal equilibrium with the enclosure. Let the body have emissive power and absorptive power , and let be the emissive power of a perfectly black body (absorptive power ) at the same temperature receiving the same incident flux from the enclosure.
The body absorbs energy per unit time (per unit area, per unit wavelength interval) from the enclosure's radiation, and it emits energy . Since the body is in thermal equilibrium with the enclosure (its temperature is not changing), the energy absorbed must equal the energy emitted:
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