Blackbody is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Blackbody in a sentence
Blackbody meaning
a theoretical body, approximated by a hole in a hollow black sphere, that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation and reflects none; it has a characteristic emission spectrum
Synonyms of Blackbody
Using Blackbody
- The main meaning on this page is: a theoretical body, approximated by a hole in a hollow black sphere, that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation and reflects none; it has a characteristic emission spectrum
- Useful related words include: black body, full radiator, natural object.
- In the example corpus, blackbody often appears in combinations such as: blackbody radiation, of blackbody, the blackbody.
Context around Blackbody
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Blackbody
- In this selection, "blackbody" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, true, instance, different, radiation, distributed and emission stand out and add context to how "blackbody" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a true blackbody which the and fluctuations of blackbody radiation which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "blackbody" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with blackbody
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
D For a true blackbody (which the plasma was not). (10 words)
For instance, blackbody radiation is due to the thermal motions of atoms and molecules within a material. (17 words)
At Harvard, Lewis also wrote a theoretical paper on the thermodynamics of blackbody radiation in which he postulated that light has a pressure. (23 words)
Given, for example, the color magnitudes B and V which are calibrated to be equal for an A0V star (e.g. Vega ), the stellar color temperature is given by the temperature for which the color index of a blackbody radiator fits the stellar one. (44 words)
The solar radiation spectrum for direct light at both the top of Earth's atmosphere and at sea level An ideal thermally conductive blackbody at the same distance from the Sun as Earth would have a temperature of about 5.3 °C. (42 words)
Due to the nature of the blackbody radiation curves, typical "hot" objects, such as exhaust pipes, often appear brighter in the MW compared to the same object viewed in the LW. (31 words)
Example sentences (12)
Alpher and Herman made it clear that what they had called "the temperature in the univerese" the previous year referred to a blackbody distributed background radiation quite different from sunliight".
As both incident radiation and blackbody emission are always equal, this equation applies equally to the temperature of any ideal body subject to incident radiation across its surface.
At Harvard, Lewis also wrote a theoretical paper on the thermodynamics of blackbody radiation in which he postulated that light has a pressure.
D For a true blackbody (which the plasma was not).
Due to the nature of the blackbody radiation curves, typical "hot" objects, such as exhaust pipes, often appear brighter in the MW compared to the same object viewed in the LW.
For instance, blackbody radiation is due to the thermal motions of atoms and molecules within a material.
Given, for example, the color magnitudes B and V which are calibrated to be equal for an A0V star (e.g. Vega ), the stellar color temperature is given by the temperature for which the color index of a blackbody radiator fits the stellar one.
However, Debye's approach failed to give the correct formula for the energy fluctuations of blackbody radiation, which were derived by Einstein in 1909.
In a nuclear photonic rocket, a nuclear reactor would generate such high temperatures that the blackbody radiation from the reactor would provide significant thrust.
The green lines show several possible pairs of complementary colors with respect to different blackbody color temperature neutrals, illustrated by the " Planckian locus ".
The peak of the blackbody spectrum is in the deep infrared, at about 10 micrometre wavelength, for relatively cool objects like human beings.
The solar radiation spectrum for direct light at both the top of Earth's atmosphere and at sea level An ideal thermally conductive blackbody at the same distance from the Sun as Earth would have a temperature of about 5.3 °C.
Common combinations with blackbody
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- blackbody radiation 5×
- of blackbody 3×
- the blackbody 3×