# How Planck explained black body radiation

If I'm not mistaken he explained it with the theory that light energy can be released only in integer multiples of a constant times the frequency of the light. How did he come to this conclusion? Was it to do with the fact that the higher the temperature, the higher the frequencies of the light emitted?

mathman
Planck's idea was to get around what was called the ultraviolet catastrophe. The point was that without quantization, the blackbody spectrum would become infinite as wavelength -> 0.

If I'm not mistaken he explained it with the theory that light energy can be released only in integer multiples of a constant times the frequency of the light. How did he come to this conclusion? Was it to do with the fact that the higher the temperature, the higher the frequencies of the light emitted?

the assumption of quantized amounts of photon energy is used to produce the black-body radiation spectrum. This result is the justification of that assumption.

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