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On the Trail of Blackbody Radiation: Max Planck and the Physics of his Era Don S. Lemons
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On the Trail of Blackbody Radiation: Max Planck and the Physics of his Era
Don S. Lemons
An account of Max Plancks 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 radiationthe radiation emitted and absorbed by nonreflective bodies in thermal equilibrium with one anotherand his work ushered in the quantum revolution in physics. In this book, three physicists trace Plancks discovery. They follow the trail of Plancks 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 Plancks work.
Planck did not set out to lay the foundation for the quantum revolution but to study a universal phenomenon for which empirical evidence had been accumulating since the late 1850s. The authors explain the nineteenth-century concepts that informed Plancks discovery, including electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. In addition, the book offers the first translations of important papers by Ludwig Boltzmann and Wilhelm Wien on which Plancks work depended.
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232 pages, 14
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 20, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9780262047043 |
| Publishers | MIT Press Ltd |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 211 × 140 × 24 mm · 340 g |
| Language | English |
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