Two video lectures titled, ‘Physics of scattering, emission and absorption’ from the e-learning course, ‘Introduction to Atmospheric Science’ developed by C Balaji, IIT Madras, for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), India. These video lectures explain the behaviour of Earth’s atmosphere due to interaction between gases and sun’s radiation which lead to radiative absorption, emission and scattering.
Students will learn about reflection, refraction, isotropic scattering, greenhouse gases, extinction coefficient, Prevost law, Stefan Boltzmann law, thermal conductivity of water, Kirchhoff’s law, Marshall-Palmer distribution, Rayleigh scattering, Mie scattering, Doppler and Lorentz broadening and Gaussian distribution.
A transcript of the lecture is also provided.
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| About Tool | |
| Tool Name | Lecture – 33 and 34: Physics of scattering, emission and absorption |
| Discipline | Physics, Earth Sciences |
| Topic(s) in Discipline | Climate Physics, Atmospheric Sciences, Atmospheric Physics, Prevost law, Stefan Boltzmann law, Kirchhoff’s law, Marshall-Palmer distribution, Rayleigh scattering |
| Climate Topic | Planetary Energy Balance, Climate and the Atmosphere |
| Type of tool | Video (48 mins and 41 mins) |
| Grade Level | Undergraduate, Graduate |
| Location | Global |
| Language | English |
| Translation | – |
| Developed by | C Balaji, IIT Madras |
| Hosted at | NPTEL |
| Link | |
| Access | Online |
| Computer Skills | Basic |
