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2011-09-08 22:38:00 | Help on Planck Damping | |
Sphaerica Bob@Lacatena... 76.28.5.93 |
I'm trying to read the following paper: It has references to the "Planck effect" and "Planck damping" which, interestingly, are terms that only show up in Google in papers written by Huang. My guess from my limited understanding and the context of the paper is that Planck's Law causes a shift in the frequencies being absorbed and emitted, and in so doing changes the absorption characteristics between layers. That is, that when one layer gets warmer, it emits in a slightly different frequency and so the radiation may pass through other, cooler layers without being absorbed. This doesn't entirely make sense to me, given the quantum nature of things, except through Doppler broadening, which I wouldn't think would affect things to too great a degree. But I don't know, and I can't find a good place to read up on it without having to go through half of a PhD worth of background physics texts. Unfortunately, I'm swamped with "paying" work, so I just don't have the time to give this the attention that I'd like. So... Can anyone briefly explain what he means by the Planck effect, and the point of the paper as a whole? At the same time... is this paper accepted in the literature, and what is it's overall impact? | |
2011-09-08 23:48:45 | ||
Riccardo riccardoreitano@tiscali... 93.147.82.143 |
Never heard about a "Planck effect" either. From the introduction:
They compare the Plank effect to the "absorptivity effect" (split into several components) and show that the former tend to dominate due to a cancellation effect of the components of the latter. | |
2011-09-09 00:57:39 | ||
Sphaerica Bob@Lacatena... 76.28.5.93 |
Okay, I was reading more into it than was there. I assumed there was something else being referenced that I didn't know. I should have just jumped to the conclusion, which states things even more succinctly. Thank you. |