Reflectivity -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Reflectivity

By Kirchhoff's law,


where is the emissivity. Note that this equation holds when the quantities are appropriately averaged over wavelength, but not necessarily at any given wavelength (incident visible light can be reradiated as infrared).

Emissivity, Kirchhoff's Law


© 1996-2007 Eric W. Weisstein

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