Thermal radiation

Made by: Hamza ES-SAHLI

Supervised by: Azzeddine LAKNIZI

Experiment 1: Inverse square law.

First thing first, we check that no part of the bench is broken or deteriorated and switch on the
power. Then, we plug in the connector coming from the hot source to the electrical power supply.
We plug in the connector of the IR sensor to the IR indicator.
Before we start the experiment, we set the assigned temperature of the indictor to 200°C and
we wait for the block body to reach the steady state.

➢ When the black body reaches the desired temperature, we put the radiometer on the
bearing. The radiometer can slide on the bearing so it will allow us to set the correct
position from the hot source.
➢ We take away 6.85 cm from the value indicated on the bearing by the cursor position.
➢ We place the cursor of the radiometer at d=9cm and write down the corresponding
radiometer reading R in W/cm².
➢ We keep increasing the distance from the hot source by 10mm each time and write
down the results.

Results:
Distance in cm R in mW/cm²
9 52.2
10 49.1
11 44.8
12 40.3
13 35.9
14 32.1
15 28.5
16 25.3
17 22.4
18 20.02
19 17.98
20 16.2
21 14.65
22 13.24
23 12.1
24 11.15
26 9.33
28 7.92
30 6.71
32 5.8
34 4.99
36 4.47
38 3.97
40 3.58
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50

40
R in mW/cm²
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
Distence in cm

Experiment 2: Lamber’s Cosine Law.

The temperature being set from the previous experiment. (200°C)
First thing first, we adjust the Radiometer position at 18cm from the hot source. This position will
remain fixed during this second experiment.
We unscrew the hot body box so it can rotate freely, then we set the initial angle at θ= -80° and
we write down the radiometer reading R in mW/cm².
By increasing the angle by 10°, we write down the radiometer reading each time. We start by
-80° until we reach +80°.

Results:
Angle in ° R in mW/cm²
-80 5.76
-70 13.15
-60 19.08
-50 22.5
-40 24.9
-30 26.2
-20 26.5
-10 28.1
0 28
10 27.3
20 26.5
 30 25.5
40 24.1
50 21.9
60 19.08
70 15.1
80 9.68

Angle in °
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R in mW/cm²

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-100 -80 -60 -40 -20 0 20 40 60 80 100

Experiment 3: Impact of the surface color on the absorbed irradiation.

We keep the temperature value set to 200°C, then we start putting the plates on the bearing and
adjust its position at 15cm from the hot source.

Results:
Elapsed Matt black Matt black White plate Natural plate
time(s) plate polished
0 20.2 20.5 20.7 19.1
20 20.5 21 22.5 19.3
40 20.6 21.9 23.3 19.4
60 21 22.7 23.9 19.5
80 21.5 23.8 24.6 19.7
100 21.7 24.3 25.1 19.7
120 22.1 25 25.6 19.9
140 22.6 25.6 26 20
160 23 26.1 26.3 20.1
180 23.3 26.7 26.6 20.2
200 23.6 27.1 26.9 20.3

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0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200

Matt Black Plate Matt Black Polished White Plate Natural Plate