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Blackbody Radiation – The Physics Hypertextbook

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Classical physics cannot explain why red hot objects are red. While trying to fix this, Max Planck launched a whole new branch of physics — quantum mechanics.

Discussion Introduction Newton's laws of motion and universal gravitation, the laws of conservation of energy and momentum, the laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell's equations for electricity and magnetism were all more or less nearly complete at the end of the 19th century. They describe a universe consisting of bodies moving with clockwork predictability on a stage of absolute space and time. They were used to create the machines that launched two waves of industrial revolution — the first one powered by steam and the second one powered by electric current. They can be used to deliver spacec

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