This document provides 6 tutorial questions on concepts related to blackbody radiation and Planck's law: 1) Calculate the number of electromagnetic modes in different dimensions. 2) Derive Wien's law and Rayleigh-Jeans law from Planck's law. 3) Derive Planck's expression for average energy. 4) Convert Planck's law from frequency to wavelength form. 5) Convert Wien's law from wavelength to frequency form and relate the peak wavelength to a constant. 6) Calculate a material's work function from a graph and determine if a given frequency is ultraviolet, visible, or infrared.
This document provides 6 tutorial questions on concepts related to blackbody radiation and Planck's law: 1) Calculate the number of electromagnetic modes in different dimensions. 2) Derive Wien's law and Rayleigh-Jeans law from Planck's law. 3) Derive Planck's expression for average energy. 4) Convert Planck's law from frequency to wavelength form. 5) Convert Wien's law from wavelength to frequency form and relate the peak wavelength to a constant. 6) Calculate a material's work function from a graph and determine if a given frequency is ultraviolet, visible, or infrared.
This document provides 6 tutorial questions on concepts related to blackbody radiation and Planck's law: 1) Calculate the number of electromagnetic modes in different dimensions. 2) Derive Wien's law and Rayleigh-Jeans law from Planck's law. 3) Derive Planck's expression for average energy. 4) Convert Planck's law from frequency to wavelength form. 5) Convert Wien's law from wavelength to frequency form and relate the peak wavelength to a constant. 6) Calculate a material's work function from a graph and determine if a given frequency is ultraviolet, visible, or infrared.
1. Calculate the number of electromagnetic modes in the frequency range
and + d in 3D. What will be the number in case of 1D and 2D? 2. Obtain Wien’s law and Rayleigh-Jeans law from Planck’s law of black body radiation in the appropriate limit. ℎ 3. Derive Planck’s expression for the average energy: ℎ 𝑒 𝑘𝑇 −1 8𝜋ℎ3 1 4. Planck’s law of black body radiation gives 𝑢( ) = ℎ ; find 𝑢(𝜆 ) 𝑐3 𝑒 𝑘𝑇 −1 𝑏 𝐴 5. Wien’s formula for the density of black body radiation 𝑢(𝜆 ) = 5 𝑒 − 𝜆𝑇 . 𝜆 Obtain 𝑢( ) . How is b related to 𝜆𝑚𝑎𝑥 ? 6. Calculate the work function of the material from the graph below. Does a frequency of 6 X 1014 Hz correspond to ultraviolet, visible or infrared?