I love this quote from the Wikipedia article on black body's.
"Due to the rapid fall-off of emitted photons with decreasing energy, a black body at room temperature (300 K) with 1 m2 of surface area emits a visible photon every thousand years or so, which is negligible for most purposes."
Yes it is a broad topic in the sense that I am trying to unify a number of different phenomena and methods of producing EM radiation. The wikipedia article is very good. I've been trying to find the blue light spectrum from a flame. I have actually researched this topic quite a bit but never...
I am a both a physics and chemistry teacher and I have been frustrated in my attempts to give my high school students a clear and unified (but level appropriate) definition and understanding of the concepts of incandescence (sometimes referred to as "hot body" radiation) and luminescence...