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In the first chapter of this book we assumed that the most elementary notions about black body radiation were already known. We have used those concepts to find, for example, the average temperature of a planet. Unfortunately, also in the case of radiation, in general physics courses the rule is to go straight from Planck’s: law to the second quantization. In this way it is simply ignored that the Planck law has so many applications. The average physics student confuses “radiative” and “radioactive”. The problem of radiative transfer is completely neglected to the point that even the simplest notions about absorption are not mentioned.
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Visconti, G. (2001). Radiation: The First Steps. In: Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04540-4_3
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