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History of Infrared technology ......................................................................................231
Theory of thermal imaging ............................................................................................236
17.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................
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17.2 The electromagnetic spectrum .......................................................................
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17.3 Blackbody radiation
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17.3.1 Planck’s law
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17.3.2 Wien’s displacement law
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17.3.3 Stefan-Boltzmann’s law
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17.3.4 Non-blackbody emitters
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17.4 Infrared semi-transparent materials ...............................................................245
Abbreviations..................................................................................................................246
Index ................................................................................................................................247
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