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SACE Stage 2 Physics — Light & Atoms 3.3

Black Body Radiation

A perfect absorber at temperature T glows across a continuous range of wavelengths. Drag the slider to heat it up and watch the colour shift. Then toggle the classical Rayleigh–Jeans prediction to see why 1900-era physicists called the short-wavelength divergence the Ultraviolet Catastrophe.