Quantization to solve black body radiation

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Homework Statement



how does Planck's idea of quantization of the energy found in electromagnetic waves solve the problem of black body radiation?

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this is what i have said correct me if I am wrong...

so plank said that photon has E=nkh..n=1,2,3...n
... where the formula by ratleigh-jeans predicted energy going to infinity as frequency increases...but when plank quantized the energy of photon he showed that there is a peak then after it drops to zero...

is there more to it or is this it?
 
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i stated ... how rayleihs -jeans formula. did not hold experimentally .. and how planks equation did .. by assuming discreet values of mean energy