Log inBlackbody Radiation Questions 3,4: Comparing Planck's Law to Rayleigh-Jeans Law for the Sun https://youtu.be/SL3z_KJ7yPw
In this video I graph out the blackbody radiation energy density for the Sun using both Planck's Law and the classical Rayleigh-Jeans Law. At high wavelengths, both models are similar but at low wavelengths the classical theory diverges wildly to infinity. This was the cause of the Ultraviolet Catastrophe.
In this video I graph out the blackbody radiation energy density for the Sun using both Planck's Law and the classical Rayleigh-Jeans Law. At high wavelengths, both models are similar but at low wavelengths the classical theory diverges wildly to infinity. This was the cause of the Ultraviolet Catastrophe.
