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    Light was being treated as waves in the 19th century because phenomena like interference, diffraction, refraction, and reflection could all be explained by viewing light as propagating waves. Lord Rayleigh and James Jeans calculated the radiation emitted by a cavity at absolute temperature T, with the density of standing waves in the cavity given by a specific formula. Their calculations did not match experimental results at higher frequencies, requiring a new explanation of the interaction between light and matter.

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    Light was being treated as waves in the 19th century because phenomena like interference, diffraction, refraction, and reflection could all be explained by viewing light as propagating waves. Lord Rayleigh and James Jeans calculated the radiation emitted by a cavity at absolute temperature T, with the density of standing waves in the cavity given by a specific formula. Their calculations did not match experimental results at higher frequencies, requiring a new explanation of the interaction between light and matter.

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    Lecture 7 PDF

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    Light was being treated as waves in the 19th century because phenomena like interference, diffraction, refraction, and reflection could all be explained by viewing light as propagating waves. Lord Rayleigh and James Jeans calculated the radiation emitted by a cavity at absolute temperature T, with the density of standing waves in the cavity given by a specific formula. Their calculations did not match experimental results at higher frequencies, requiring a new explanation of the interaction between light and matter.

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    9/28/2016

    For many reasons light was being treated as waves. The phenomena of
    interference, diffraction ,refraction and reflection all can be explained by
    treating light as propagating waves.

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    At the end of 19th century Lord Rayleigh and James Jeans calculated
    the emitted radiation by a cavity at absolute T. The density of standing
    waves in such a cavity is given by,

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