What is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?
Physics Explained2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2022-2025
2.7M views · 6 years ago · lecture · evergreen
A detailed 40-minute explanation of the ultraviolet catastrophe, covering Rayleigh and Jeans' classical treatment of blackbody radiation and Planck's quantum hypothesis. It follows the Eisberg and Resnick textbook treatment.
Recommended for a math-heavy but thorough treatment of the ultraviolet catastrophe and the history of the experiments.
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4 comments from Hacker News
You know about the Ultraviolet catastrophe? Physics Explained Ultraviolet Catastrophe: ▶ this video This Veritassium Video goes back further in time and talks about Action, and the Genesis of this idea. link Chemistorian, The history of Atomic Theory. link
Kinda funny. Just before seeing this article I had just finished watching a wonderful video on the "Ultraviolet Catastrophe" ( ▶ this video ) which isn't exactly the same as what's being talked about here... but in the same class of problem if you make that class big enough :-). When looking at these sorts of things, surely such "hockey sticks" are often times just not considering the limiting factors? I'm no mathematician (by any approximation) but it seems like more often than not finding such a result should point to some incompleteness or some closer look being required to get the full picture. (P.S. that video was very math heavy and no, I didn't understand most of the math beyond hand-wavy terms... still glad they went into the detail.)
This is the basis of the "ultraviolet catastrophe" and lead to the discovery of quantization of radiation. The "catastrophe" being that as classical laws for light implied a potentially unbounded amount of energy as wavelength decreased. link ▶ this video
Science Asylum is great, but I dislike the 90s educational show presentation format. An absolute gem I've stumbled across is ScienceClic: link They have amazing presentations on Relativity, my favorite being: "A new way to visualize General Relativity" - link "Hawking Radiation" - link Another, while heavier and less accessible channel is Physics Explained: link These are closer like lectures, but I enjoy them because they go into the histories of some of these experiments; and what the prevailing wisdom was around the time the experiments were performed: "What is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?" - ▶ this video