An Approachable Derivation of the Rayleigh-Jeans Law

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Premise We can consider a black body to consist of electromagnetic radiation in thermal equilibrium with the cavity walls. When they are in thermal equilibrium, the average rate of radiation emission equals their average rate of absorption of radiation. The Rayleigh-Jeans theory was constructed on the notion that when the

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