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Classical Blackbody Radiation

Weiner John, Frederico Nunes

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This complement to Chapter 5 discusses the question of blackbody radiation and how the Rayleigh-Jeans formula leads to infinite energy density. The quantisation of the oscillator modes and their association with discrete energy ‘quanta’ reveals excellent agreement with the measured spectral distribution when the proportionality constant between the energy and mode frequency is equal to the Planck constant.

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Key concepts: Black-body radiation, Physics, Planck energy, Planck, Radiation, Constant (computer programming), Complement (music), Energy density