Recent content by davepl

Brace yourself for another banal question, but... All the explanations I've read that introduce the wave/particle duality start by saying it has to be wave (the light-slit interference experiment) and that light arrives in discrete quantums (the photo electric effect, etc). None of the...

I have a (very basic) question on blackbody radiation (and no, its not my homework assignment... just trying to fill the gaps in some of the physics I missed 20 years ago when I -was- in school!). As you heat an object, such as a block of metal, and as the temperature increases to higher energy...