black-body radiation
91White — This article is about the color. For other uses, see White (disambiguation). white light redirects here. For other uses, see White Light. White   Common connotations  ghos …
92Planck , Max Karl Ernst Ludwig — (1858–1947) German physicist Planck was born at Kiel in Germany, where his father was a professor of civil law at the university. He was educated at the universities of Berlin and Munich where he obtained his doctorate in 1880. He began his… …
93Incandescence — is the emission of light (visible electromagnetic radiation) from a hot body due to its temperature. [cite book | title = Treatise on Heat author = Dionysius Lardner | publisher = Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green Longman | year = 1833 | url =… …
94Trans-Neptunian object — A trans Neptunian object (TNO) is any object in the solar system that orbits the sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions of this volume of space.The orbit of each of… …
95Laws of science — The laws of science are various established scientific laws, or physical laws as they are sometimes called, that are considered universal and invariable facts of the physical world. Laws of science may, however, be disproved if new facts or… …
96Theoretical astronomy — Nucleosynthesis Stellar nucleosynthesis Big Bang nucleosynthesis Supernova nucleosynthesis Cosmic ray spallation …
97Planck's law — For a general introduction, see black body. In physics, Planck s law describes the spectral radiance of electromagnetic radiation at all wavelengths from a black body at temperature T. As a function of frequency u, Planck s law is written as:… …
98Dicke , Robert Henry — (1916–) American physicist Dicke, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, graduated in 1939 from Princeton University and obtained his PhD in 1941 from the University of Rochester. He spent the war at the radiation laboratory of the Massachusetts… …
99Gas in a box — In quantum mechanics, the results of the quantum particle in a box can be used to look at the equilibrium situation for a quantum ideal gas in a box which is a box containing a large number of molecules which do not interact with each other… …
100History of quantum mechanics — The history of quantum mechanics as this interlaces with history of quantum chemistry began essentially with the 1838 discovery of cathode rays by Michael Faraday, during the 1859 1860 winter statement of the black body radiation problem by… …
