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Black-body radiation is the thermal electromagnetic radiation within or surrounding a body in thermodynamic equilibrium with its environment, or emitted by a black body (an opaque and non-reflective body). It has a specific spectrum and intensity that depends only on the body's temperature, which is assumed for the sake of calculations and theory to be uniform and constant.
Considering a cavity at temperature
in radiation equilibrium, the volume of the cavity is
, the energy density (energy per unit volume and frequency)
. Here
expresses the energy per unit volume in the interval
. Classically, the situation is described by the Rayleigh–Jeans law
.One can easily make this plausible by considering standing plane waves in a cavity with reflecting metal walls.
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