What is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?

What is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?

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What is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 How do hot objects emit light?
  3. 3 What is a blackbody?
  4. 4 Blackbody Absorption
  5. 5 The Jeans Cube
  6. 6 Ernst Pringsheim
  7. 7 Experimental Results
  8. 8 What were the known laws of physics?
  9. 9 Describing Waves
  10. 10 Adding Waves
  11. 11 Stationary Waves inside the cube
  12. 12 Applying the boundary conditions
  13. 13 What is the frequency density?
  14. 14 What are the allowed frequencies in 3d?
  15. 15 What is the density of states?
  16. 16 The equipartition of energy
  17. 17 So, how does this work for waves?
  18. 18 The Boltzmann Distribution
  19. 19 Putting it all together
  20. 20 In terms of wavelength...
  21. 21 What does this look like?
  22. 22 Enter Planck...
  23. 23 Energy is quantized...
  24. 24 What does this mean?
  25. 25 Comparing with experiment
  26. 26 The birth of quantum physics
  27. 27 Reflections

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