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brajesh
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- Packing the energy into frequencies - how is that done?
Hi,
I'm curious about the ultraviolet catastrophe, and how Planck decided to hypothesize the quantization of energy integrally proportional to frequency to explain the drop off of energy in the higher frequencies.
So what I don't understand is, when the energy is transmitted as a photon, does it show up as a fixed size, and then the best frequency says "this one's for me?".
Or to put it another way, let's say X amount of energy needs to be transmitted.
Do the frequencies divvy up the energy X until they have all used it up?
Or they say, freq Y can carry X size energy, so this X energy is going to be loaded up exactly onto frequency Y.
And there is never any "dividing up" function amongst the frequencies prior to the transmission.
Hope this question makes sense, my first post :)
I'm curious about the ultraviolet catastrophe, and how Planck decided to hypothesize the quantization of energy integrally proportional to frequency to explain the drop off of energy in the higher frequencies.
So what I don't understand is, when the energy is transmitted as a photon, does it show up as a fixed size, and then the best frequency says "this one's for me?".
Or to put it another way, let's say X amount of energy needs to be transmitted.
Do the frequencies divvy up the energy X until they have all used it up?
Or they say, freq Y can carry X size energy, so this X energy is going to be loaded up exactly onto frequency Y.
And there is never any "dividing up" function amongst the frequencies prior to the transmission.
Hope this question makes sense, my first post :)