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Lecture 7 PDF
Lecture 7 PDF
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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