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Steps to the Planck Function : A Centenary Reflection

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The year 2000 marks the centenary of the Planck function for the blackbody spectral distribution. Here are traced the steps, over 100 years, along the path leading to this important formula.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0011219,
  title  = {Steps to the Planck Function : A Centenary Reflection},
  author = {T Richard Carson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0011219},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages

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