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This book provides detailed calculated values for the thermal radiative and thermodynamic functions of black-body radiation in finite spectral ranges. The results are presented in tabular form. The areas of thermal power generation, infrared medical diagnostics, solar power and nuclear generation, and astrophysics are included. A range of the thermal radiative and thermodynamic functions are calculated by the authors in the finite frequency/wavenumber/wavelength intervals at different temperatures. This book also contains the tables of the chromaticity coordinates and RGB parameters calculated for different color spaces (Rec.709 (HDTV), sRGB, Adobe RGB). A number of the optimization problems is formulated and solved for various thermal black-body radiative and thermodynamic functions in a finite range of frequencies.

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This book, the first of a two-volume set, focuses on the basic physical principles of blackbody radiometry and describes artificial sources of blackbody radiation, widely used as sources of optical radiation, whose energy characteristics can be calculated on the base of fundamental physical laws. Following a review of radiometric quantities, radiation laws, and radiative heat transfer, it introduces the basic principles of blackbody radiators design, details of their practical implementation, and methods of measuring their defining characteristics, as well as metrological aspects of blackbody-based measurements. Chapters are dedicated to the effective emissivity concept, methods of increasing effective emissivities, their measurement and modeling using the Monte Carlo method, techniques of blackbody radiators heating, cooling, isothermalization, and measuring their temperature. An extensive and comprehensive reference source, this book is of considerable value to students, researchers, and engineers involved in any aspect of blackbody radiometry.

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About 120 years ago, James Clerk Maxwell introduced his now legendary hypothetical "demon" as a challenge to the integrity of the second law of thermodynamics. Fascination with the demon persisted throughout the development of statistical and quantum physics, information theory, and computer science--and linkages have been established between Maxwell's demon and each of these disciplines. The demon's seductive quality makes it appealing to physical scientists, engineers, computer scientists, biologists, psychologists, and historians and philosophers of science. Until now its important source material has been scattered throughout diverse journals.This book brings under one cover twenty-five reprints, including seminal works by Maxwell and William Thomson; historical reviews by Martin Klein, Edward Daub, and Peter Heimann; information theoretic contributions by Leo Szilard, Leon Brillouin, Dennis Gabor, and Jerome Rothstein; and innovations by Rolf Landauer and Charles Bennett illustrating linkages with the limits of computation. An introductory chapter summarizes the demon's life, from Maxwell's illustration of the second law's statistical nature to the most recent "exorcism" of the demon based on a need periodically to erase its memory. An annotated chronological bibliography is included.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Thermodynamics. --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Heat --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory --- Maxwell's demon. --- Adiabatic process. --- Automaton. --- Available energy (particle collision). --- Billiard-ball computer. --- Black hole information paradox. --- Black hole thermodynamics. --- Black-body radiation. --- Boltzmann's entropy formula. --- Boyle's law. --- Calculation. --- Carnot's theorem (thermodynamics). --- Catalysis. --- Chaos theory. --- Computation. --- Copying. --- Creation and annihilation operators. --- Digital physics. --- Dissipation. --- Distribution law. --- Domain wall. --- EPR paradox. --- Energy level. --- Entropy of mixing. --- Entropy. --- Exchange interaction. --- Expectation value (quantum mechanics). --- Extrapolation. --- Fair coin. --- Fermi–Dirac statistics. --- Gibbs free energy. --- Gibbs paradox. --- Guessing. --- Halting problem. --- Hamiltonian mechanics. --- Heat engine. --- Heat. --- Helmholtz free energy. --- Ideal gas. --- Idealization. --- Information theory. --- Instant. --- Internal energy. --- Irreversible process. --- James Prescott Joule. --- Johnson–Nyquist noise. --- Kinetic theory of gases. --- Laws of thermodynamics. --- Least squares. --- Loschmidt's paradox. --- Ludwig Boltzmann. --- Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution. --- Mean free path. --- Measurement. --- Mechanical equivalent of heat. --- Microscopic reversibility. --- Molecule. --- Negative temperature. --- Negentropy. --- Newton's law of universal gravitation. --- Nitrous oxide. --- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics. --- Old quantum theory. --- Particle in a box. --- Perpetual motion. --- Photon. --- Probability. --- Quantity. --- Quantum limit. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Rectangular potential barrier. --- Result. --- Reversible computing. --- Reversible process (thermodynamics). --- Richard Feynman. --- Rolf Landauer. --- Rudolf Clausius. --- Scattering. --- Schrödinger equation. --- Second law of thermodynamics. --- Self-information. --- Spontaneous process. --- Standard state. --- Statistical mechanics. --- Superselection. --- Temperature. --- Theory of heat. --- Theory. --- Thermally isolated system. --- Thermodynamic equilibrium. --- Thermodynamic system. --- Thought experiment. --- Turing machine. --- Ultimate fate of the universe. --- Uncertainty principle. --- Unitarity (physics). --- Van der Waals force. --- Wave function collapse. --- Work output.