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Do atoms recoil when emitting a photon?
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[QUOTE="sol47739, post: 6847495, member: 728718"] What then does give enough energy for it to correspond to Maxwell Boltzmann distribution. Was Dale Right that the recoil is negible? And the Blackbody spectrum(the part amounting to spontaneous emission Wien’s distribution) is directly proportional to the Maxwell Boltzmann distribution. Thus there is a strong relationship between the energy/wavelength of a photon and the amount of atoms in the system haveing the probability of having a velocity thus momentum that corresponds to the amount of photons emitted. So I can’t understand how one doesn’t see that there is a strong relationship between the velocity of atom in the Maxwell Boltzmann distribution and the wavelengths of the photons in the Blackbody spectrum at that particular temperature. But convection and conduction works because here two system interacts one with higher temperature(higher photon density exchange )and one with lower temperature (lower photon density). [/QUOTE]
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