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BlackBody Radiation/UV Catastrophe

Planck's Postulates
1.) E = nhf (energy of molecules quantized)
2.) $E_{\gamma } = hf$ (energy of light comes in ``lumps'')

\begin{displaymath}h = 6.63\times 10^{-34} {\rm J}\cdot {\rm S}\end{displaymath}



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2001-01-05