ultraviolet catastrophe (English, noun)
expansion: ultraviolet catastrophe
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topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A fault in classical physics, from the Rayleigh's law/Rayleigh-Jeans law outcomes at short wavelengths/high frequencies, that causes infinite amplification of shorter wavelength/higher frequency radiation inside a cavity, due to the application of equipartition theorem on black body radiation within a cavity.
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