Did you know light behaves differently at tiny scales?
Planck's law
Did you know light behaves differently at tiny scales?
Imagine you're trying to tune a radio to a specific station, but the signal keeps cutting out at higher frequencies. This happens with black-body radiation too.
Planck figured out that light behaves like tiny packets of energy, called quanta, instead of a continuous wave. This explains why the light spectrum gets weird at high frequencies.
Example
If light were a continuous wave, tuning to a high-frequency station would work smoothly. But with quanta, the signal jumps in discrete packets, causing the cutouts.
Remember this
Planck's constant quantizes light energy, explaining black-body radiation's strange high-frequency behavior.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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