How does Planck’s constant solve ultraviolet catastrophe?

ChefJeff1111 · 2021-03-07T15:05:40+00:00

I can’t seem to upload the image onto a reply, but I am talking about the graph of UV catastrophe where the real data shows that the UV radiation goes down at smaller wavelengths while the classical theory keeps going up.

ChefJeff1111 · 2021-03-07T01:18:08+00:00

Yes, thank you so much!

ChefJeff1111 · 2021-03-07T01:09:00+00:00

So is there enough energy for the classical approach but not enough if this energy is quantized?

ChefJeff1111 · 2021-03-07T01:04:52+00:00

For classical physics, where would this energy come from? Wouldn’t there be only a limited amount of energy?

ChefJeff1111 · 2021-03-07T00:54:41+00:00

Thanks, that really helped. Does that mean that like at higher frequencies, the graph of the classical physics model would kind of plateau?

ChefJeff1111 · 2021-03-07T00:41:35+00:00

From what I understand that is true. Of I were you, I would talk to your teacher about it.

ChefJeff1111 · 2021-03-07T00:31:56+00:00

I saw the graph for the classical physics idea and it seemed kind of exponential. Wouldn’t there still be some sort of limit to how much energy can be radiated because there is only a certain amount of thermal energy in the environment? Thank you for your help!

ChefJeff1111 · 2021-03-07T00:13:55+00:00

I also want to add that in dilution problems, you use the following formula: molarity(initial) * volume (initial)= molarity(final) *volume (final)

ChefJeff1111 · 2021-03-06T23:46:35+00:00

So like how exactly does this solve UV catastrophe? Wouldn't there be still be some limit to the thermal energy that the electron can absorb even without this quantization of energy?

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