Hi,
I'm currently looking into reflectivity and emissivity of metals in sunlight. However, I can't quite grasp how the mechanisms of reflection and emission differ. Emission obviously occurs because an electron is exited by a photon and then is de-excited and emits photon or photons. However...
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I'm having a bit of trouble defining the difference between reflection and emission on the atomic level. As far as I can see both just essentially involve excitation of an electron by a photon, followed by...