Blackbody Radiation Questions 3,4: Comparing Planck's Law to Rayleigh-Jeans Law for the Sun

First published at 17:03 UTC on May 30th, 2024.
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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 …

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