Box Normalizing in Quantum Mechanics: The Role of Black Body Radiation

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What is box normalizing and why is it important in quantum mechanical problems such as the black body radiation?
 
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Any ideas? It seems box normalizing is done w/the wavefunction for a free particle to assume a finite box rather than infinite dimensions. Is that basically box normalizing? How is that helpful with the black body?
 
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