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christian0710
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Hi,
Is it correctly understood that it's the intensity of light that causes melting or heating of objects and not frequency or vice versa? I'm trying to understand the ultraviolette catastrophe (what the problem was) and according the the equation for intensity (given below) frequency increases exponentially, when intensity increases, so is this the poblem scientists were facing: if a black body radiates light at high intensity it would produce a frequency that was high enough to melt objects and as the intensity increased the frequency would go to inifnity?
I = (2*f*Kbb*T)/c^2
Is it correctly understood that it's the intensity of light that causes melting or heating of objects and not frequency or vice versa? I'm trying to understand the ultraviolette catastrophe (what the problem was) and according the the equation for intensity (given below) frequency increases exponentially, when intensity increases, so is this the poblem scientists were facing: if a black body radiates light at high intensity it would produce a frequency that was high enough to melt objects and as the intensity increased the frequency would go to inifnity?
I = (2*f*Kbb*T)/c^2