Table of contents
17 History of infrared technology............................................................. 67
18 Theory of thermography..................................................................... 70
18.1 Introduction ............................................................................. 70
18.2 The electromagnetic spectrum..................................................... 70
18.3 Blackbody radiation................................................................... 71
18.3.1 Planck’s law .................................................................. 72
18.3.2 Wien’s displacement law.................................................. 73
18.3.3 Stefan-Boltzmann's law ................................................... 74
18.3.4 Non-blackbody emitters................................................... 75
18.4 Infrared semi-transparent materials............................................... 77
19 The measurement formula.................................................................. 78
20 Emissivity tables ............................................................................... 82
20.1 References.............................................................................. 82
20.2 Tables .................................................................................... 82
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