Thermal radiation and energy balance

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An industrial technician is monitoring the thermal radiation emitted by a silicon carbide heating element inside a high-temperature kiln.

The graph below displays how the spectral intensity of the emitted thermal radiation varies with wavelength for two different operating temperatures, TlowT_{\text{low}}Tlow​ and ThighT_{\text{high}}Thigh​, where ThighT_{\text{high}}Thigh​ is a higher operating temperature than TlowT_{\text{low}}Tlow​.

Thermal radiation spectra

Describe how the spectral intensity of the emitted radiation changes as the operating temperature of the heating element increases from TlowT_{\text{low}}Tlow​ to ThighT_{\text{high}}Thigh​.

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