MAX PLANCK

OUR MAX
TEAM KARL ERNST LUDWIG PLANCK
(1858-1947)

His major contributions to

￭ A German physicist, is Physics are:
considered to be the founder of • PLANK'S QUANTUM
quantum theory, and one of the THEORY

most important physicists of the • PLANCK'S LAW OF

BLACK BODY RADIATION
20th century.
• PLANCK’S CONSTANT
 PLANK’S QUANTUM THEOR
01
• He discovered that light could be emitted in
particles (Quanta) rather than steady waves.
This hypothesis over-turned many
assumptions of classical physics, paving the
way for many future developments in
Quantum Physics.
 PLANCK'S LAW OF BLACK BODY
02 RADIATION

• A black body, is an object which absorbs

all light. His experimental observations
showed that the wavelength distribution
of energy was not constant but a
function of temperature.
 PLANCK’S
03 CONSTANT

• The energy for a resonator with

frequency v is hv.
• E =hv
• Where h is a universal constant (now
called Planck’s constant) which Plank
correctly predicted to within 2% of the
generally accepted value. (6.626 x 10-34
J s.)
 REFERENCE
Max Planck - Planck - Cosmos. (n.d.).
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/planck/max-
planck

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