On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 2:45:42 PM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > These are questions that can be looked up in something such as Wikipedia. > > LC >
Wiki has a good article on this. Oddly, when I took E&M courses, undergraduate and graduate, I don't recall this issue ever being discussed, at least not in detail. I don't recall any detailed discussion of Planck's radiation law; that is, how it's derived. AG > > > On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 4:16:47 AM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> When one solves ME's, one gets continuous wave solutions. But somehow >> they give the wrong prediction for BB radiation. The correct solution >> requires quantizing the energy packets into discrete packets of energy. But >> prior to the advent of QED, in 1900, how did Planck incorporate this >> discreteness into a continuous theory to yield the correction solution of >> the BB problem? TIA, AG >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/18a4b583-0266-44f9-a10f-700221586d33%40googlegroups.com.
