The qualitative meaning of central moments up to 4th order (mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis) is well documented and explained in literature. I am posting this question because I am interested to know if any of the higher moments (5th, 6th, and so on) has some clear qualitative meaning as...
Hi Naty1,
thanks for your reply.
What I am interested in is actually only the so called "thermal radiation", since this is related to black body radiation. There should probably exist some elementary processes that contribute to this type of radiation.
Hi,
I don't quite understand which are the fundamental processes for production of photons that are emitted by a "black body". Usually this is explained by considering a cavity in thermodynamic equilibrium but I am not interested in this. I am looking for a more practical description of this...