On the Trail of Blackbody Radiation: Max Planck and the Physics of His Era Lemons Don S.
An account of Max Planck's construction of his theory of blackbody radiation, summarizing the established physics on which he drew.In the last year of the nineteenth century, Max Planck constructed a…
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An account of Max Planck's construction of his theory of blackbody radiation, summarizing the established physics on which he drew.In the last year of the nineteenth century, Max Planck constructed a theory of blackbody radiation--the radiation emitted and absorbed by nonreflective bodies in thermal equilibrium with one another--and his work ushered in the quantum revolution in physics. In this book, three physicists trace Planck's discovery. They follow the trail of Planck's thinking by constructing a textbook of sorts that summarizes the established physics on which he drew. By offering this account, the authors explore not only how Planck deployed his considerable knowledge of the physics of his era but also how Einstein and others used and interpreted Planck's work.Planck did not set out to lay the foundation for the quantum revolution but to study a universal