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Detection of the thermal radiation emitted by a hot tungsten filament

The demonstration of the Stefan-Boltzmann law using a hot tungsten filament has become a classical experiment. In this article we investigate the use of low cost photodiodes as the photodetectors of the experiment. The obtained results are discussed in the framework of Planck's spectral distribution.

Keywords:
Stefan-Boltzmann law; Planck's distribution; photodiodes


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