{"id":159373,"date":"2015-12-16T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=8ca199975337fba34d581432ae992198"},"modified":"2015-12-16T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T00:00:00","slug":"hawking-temperature-an-elementary-approach-based-on-newtonian-mechanics-and-quantum-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=159373","title":{"rendered":"Hawking temperature: an elementary approach based on Newtonian mechanics and quantum theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1974, the British physicist Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes have a characteristic<br \/>\ntemperature and are therefore capable of emitting radiation. Given the scientific importance of this<br \/>\ndiscovery, there is a profuse literature on the subject. Nevertheless, the available literature ends<br \/>\nup being either too simple, which does not convey the true physical significance of the issue, or<br \/>\ntoo technical, which excludes an ample segment of the audience interested in science, such as<br \/>\nphysics teachers and their students. The present article seeks to remedy this shortcoming. It<br \/>\ndevelops a simple and plausible argument that provides insight into the fundamental aspects of<br \/>\nHawking\u2019s discovery, which leads to an approximate equation for the so-called Hawking temperature .<br \/>\nThe exposition is mainly intended for physics teachers and their students, and it only requires<br \/>\nelementary algebra, as well as basic notions of Newtonian mechanics and quantum theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1974, the British physicist Stephen Hawking discovered that black holes have a characteristic<br \/>\ntemperature and are therefore capable of emitting radiation. Given the scientific importance of this<br \/>\ndiscovery, there is a profuse literature on the subj&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-159373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}