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Table of contents
43 History of infrared technology......................................................... 125
44 Theory of thermography................................................................. 128
44.1 Introduction ......................................................................... 128
44.2 The electromagnetic spectrum................................................. 128
44.3 Blackbody radiation............................................................... 128
44.3.1 Planck's law .............................................................. 129
44.3.2 Wien's displacement law.............................................. 130
44.3.3 Stefan-Boltzmann's law ............................................... 131
44.3.4 Non-blackbody emitters............................................... 132
44.4 Infrared semi-transparent materials........................................... 134
45 The measurement formula.............................................................. 135
46 Emissivity tables ........................................................................... 139
46.1 References.......................................................................... 139
46.2 Tables ................................................................................ 139
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