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Light in a cavity and sound in a solid may be considered as gases of quasi-particles, the photons, and phonons respectively. It is then possible to treat them thermodynamically. The first successful attempt in that direction was Boltzmann’s derivation of what we now call the Stefan-Boltzmann law. That law relates the energy density of cavity radiation in equilibrium with the wall to the temperature of the wall.
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Müller, I., Ruggeri, T. (1993). Thermodynamics of Light and Sound. In: Extended Thermodynamics. Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy, vol 37. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0447-0_5
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