The territory is slightly smaller than the combined area of Maryland and Delaware in the United States. Taiwan occupies a total area of 35,980 square kilometers (13,892 square miles). Its capital city, Taipei, is in the northeast, and is the most densely populated area in the territory.
continuous spectrum. n. (General Physics) a spectrum that contains or appears to contain all wavelengths but not spectrum lines over a wide portion of its range. The emission spectrum of incandescent solids is continuous; bremsstrahlung spectra consisting of a large number of lines may appear continuous.
A star is a hot dense ball of gas so we should expect it have a continuous spectrum. But stars also have thin, transparent outer layers that light has to pass through. These layers produce absorption lines. Thus the light from the sun and stars are examples of absorption spectra.The stars' spectra differ from each other depending on temperature and composition. When astronomers first observed these differences in the 19 th century they devised a classification system that assigned letters to various spectral types.he lines occur where atoms of the gas have absorbed specific wavelengths of light. Hence we call this type of spectrum an absorption spectrum. If we view this transparent gas against a black background we would see that it also emits light (if it has an enough energy), giving an emission spectrum.