What Is Max Planck Formula
Max Planck
Justin Thomas
Period 4
Chemistry
10/08/96
On April 23, 1858 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany.
He was the sixth child of a law professor at the University of Kiel. At the age of nine his interest in physics and mathematics was developed by his teacher
Hermann Muller. When he graduated at the age of seventeen he decided to choose physics over music for his career. Although he is know for physics he was an exceptional pianist who had acquired the gift of being able to hear absolute pitch. His favorite works of music were known to be Schubert and Brahms.
Entering the University of Munich in 1874 he got little inspiration and was unimpressed at the University of Berlin which was between the years of …show more content…
Although Planck's formula was accepted to be correct without argue, he was not satisfied and he tried to relate his formula with the absolute laws which he loved so much. In order to make sense of his formula he had to kick the second law of thermodynamics out the door and accepted it as a statistical law, as it was interpreted by Ludwig
Boltzmann. He also had to accept that the blackbody could not absorb energy continuously but in separate amounts of energy spread over time like pulses.
Planck called this quanta of energy. To prove his formula even further he used it to find Planck's constant h, which turned out to be a very small number(six and fifty-five hundredths times ten to the negative twenty-seventh power). The fact that Planck's constant was not zero and it was in fact a number made the unseen physical world indescribable by classical methods which sparked a revolution in physical theory. When Planck discovered the theory of quantum he was forty-two and then later won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918. After his discovery he still contributed to physics increasingly. Planck was the first physicist to back
Justin Thomas
Period 4
Chemistry
10/08/96
On April 23, 1858 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany.
He was the sixth child of a law professor at the University of Kiel. At the age of nine his interest in physics and mathematics was developed by his teacher
Hermann Muller. When he graduated at the age of seventeen he decided to choose physics over music for his career. Although he is know for physics he was an exceptional pianist who had acquired the gift of being able to hear absolute pitch. His favorite works of music were known to be Schubert and Brahms.
Entering the University of Munich in 1874 he got little inspiration and was unimpressed at the University of Berlin which was between the years of …show more content…
Although Planck's formula was accepted to be correct without argue, he was not satisfied and he tried to relate his formula with the absolute laws which he loved so much. In order to make sense of his formula he had to kick the second law of thermodynamics out the door and accepted it as a statistical law, as it was interpreted by Ludwig
Boltzmann. He also had to accept that the blackbody could not absorb energy continuously but in separate amounts of energy spread over time like pulses.
Planck called this quanta of energy. To prove his formula even further he used it to find Planck's constant h, which turned out to be a very small number(six and fifty-five hundredths times ten to the negative twenty-seventh power). The fact that Planck's constant was not zero and it was in fact a number made the unseen physical world indescribable by classical methods which sparked a revolution in physical theory. When Planck discovered the theory of quantum he was forty-two and then later won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918. After his discovery he still contributed to physics increasingly. Planck was the first physicist to back