Tag: Black-body radiation

• The Birth of Quantum Mechanics: How Black-Body Radiation, the Photoelectric Effect and Matter Waves Broke the Classical PictureThe Rayleigh-Jeans divergence shows why black-body radiation defeats classical physics; then come Planck's quantum hypothesis, Einstein's light quanta and de Broglie matter waves.PhysicsQuantum MechanicsUndergraduateQuantum theoryBlack-body radiationPhotoelectric effectMatter wavesPlanck constant~29 min