Black Body Radiation and What the Stars Tell Us
Overview
Blackbody Radiation and the Stars
Helpful Pre-requisite project: Electromagnetic Waves
This module is a summary of the relation between temperature, energy, and the light emitted by the objects we see in the universe.
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