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Zusatztext "This is an excellent history of the mathematical development behind radiation calculators and other computational aids told in terms of detailed mathematical analysis and historical narrative. It is well-written! comprehensive! and includes the most extensive treatment of the radiation slide rule I have seen anywhere." - Barbara G. Grant! Author of Field Guide to Radiometry! Getting Started with UAV Imaging Systems: A Radiometric Guide and co-author of The Art of Radiometry! Cupertino! California! USA"The historical and mathematical details presented cannot be found in other books. It is a historic document! an impressive milestone. This book is not only very valuable for someone who wishes to understand the behavior of a blackbody! I recommend it also to those who are familiar with the subject! but want to know it all."-Max J. Riedl! Author and Lecturer! Germany"Blackbody radiation is covered in a wide and comprehensive sense! covering historical context! mathematical details! computational means and applications. This is easily the most comprehensive and well-researched compilation on blackbody radiation ever written. The book broadly follows a historical timeline! showing how the best available technology available at the time was used to compute results from Planck's law. The book captures the ingenious beauty of mathematics! the nomogram and the slide rule to compute one of the most important physics laws in engineering."-CJ (Nelis) Willers! Airbus Optronics South Africa Informationen zum Autor Seán M. Stewart recently joined Nazarbayev University in Astana where he is an associate professor of engineering mathematics. Before moving to Kazakhstan, he spent eleven years working at The Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where he was an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics. His main research interests lie in the fields of applied mathematics and in the history of computation. R. Barry Johnson has been involved for over 40 years in infrared technology, lens design, optical systems design, and electro-optical systems engineering, and has used many of the devices and techniques described in this book, and knew many of the individuals mentioned therein. He developed the method of integrating Planck’s equation using the method of Gauss–Laguerre quadrature. Dr Johnson is a Senior Research Professor at Alabama A&M University and has been a faculty member at two other academic institutions engaged in optics education and research, employed by a number of companies, and has provided consulting services within the field. Dr. Johnson is an SPIE Fellow and Life Member, OSA Fellow, and is an SPIE past president (1987). He has been awarded many patents and has published numerous scientific and technical articles. Dr. Johnson was awarded the 2012 OSA/SPIE Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award for Lens Design Fundamentals, Second Edition. He is a perennial co-chair of the annual SPIE Conference Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering. Zusammenfassung Shelving Guide: Electrical Engineering In 1900 the great German theoretical physicist Max Planck formulated a correct mathematical description of blackbody radiation. Today, understanding the behavior of a blackbody is of importance to many fields including thermal and infrared systems engineering, pyrometry, astronomy, meteorology, and illumination. This book gives an account of the development of Planck’s equation together with many of the other functions closely related to it. Particular attention is paid to the computational aspects employed in the evaluation of these functions together with the various aids developed to facilitate such calculations. The book is divided into three sections. Section I – Thermal radiation and the blackbody problem are introduced and discussed. Early developments made by exper...
