Print - Overview
- 6.1 Atmospheric Radiation: Why does it matter?
- 6.2 Start at the Source: Earth Rotating Around the Sun
- 6.3 How is energy related to the wavelength of radiation?
- 6.4 The Solar Spectrum
- 6.5 What is the origin of the Planck Function?
- 6.6 Which wavelength has the greatest spectral irradiance?
- 6.7 What is the total irradiance of any object?
- 6.8 Kirchhoff’s Law explains why nobody is perfect.
- 6.9 Why do objects absorb the way that they do?
- 6.10 How much radiation is absorbed as radiation passes through matter?
- 6.11 What happens when we have both absorption and emission in the infrared?
- 6.12 What about scattering?
- Summary and Final Tasks