Leslie's cube
Experiment no.: 7.4.1
This experiment illustrates Kirchhoff's law in an extremely clear way. A cube with four different vertical surfaces is filled with boiling water and the thermal radiation is measured.
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Absorption measured
Surfaces of the cube
Black-body radiation
Spectral emissivity
Max Planck
Spectral emissivity by Planck
Electromagnetic spectrum