The ultraviolet catastrophe!

#physics #science #learning #learneclecticthings

[musicryandave]

The Ultraviolet Catastrophe would be a good band name

[douglasstrother]

"Planck’s Route to the Black Body Radiation Formula and Quantization" by Michael Fowler details Planck's thermodynamic analysis of the entropy of Blackbody Radiation, which motivated his frequency-dependent hypothesis to satisfy Wien's Law at high frequencies.

Planck's application of Boltzmann's Statistical Mechanics led to his conclusion that the material of the walls emit and absorb radiation in discrete quanta.

It's a great read.

[starchington]

I wanna hear more about when you’d argue modernity began. Not 1889?