Lesson: Blackbody Radiation Physics

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In this lesson, we will learn how to describe the change with temperature of an ideal blackbody’s color and explain how this shows the quantization of light.

Lesson Plan

Students will be able to

define and recognize cavity modes for electromagnetic waves,
compare graphical representations of radiation spectra corresponding to quantised and continuous distributions of wavelengths of blackbody radiation,
use the formula to relate the energy, frequency, and number of quanta emitted by a blackbody.