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Blackbody Radiation

Kyrisch
in Quantum Theory

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Why does this occur? I looked Thermal Radiation up in Wikipedia and it said "Thermal radiation is generated when heat from the movement of charged particles within atoms is converted to electromagnetic radiation" which seems pretty vague. Is it that there is no identified mechanism for this?

basically, the atoms are jittering about really really fast. the acceleration of charges(as atoms are composed of charged particles) causes the emission of photons. this process is called thermal radiation.

 

note, this may have some inaccuracies, i'm remembering it from years ago.

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