KnowraRayleigh–Jeans lawLinked fromLinked fromThe 15 pages that link to Rayleigh–Jeans law, each with the reason it gives.All 15Broader topic 1Related 2Compared with 12Thermal radiationCompared with: Its short-wavelength failure sharpened the need for a new radiation theory.Black-body radiationCompared with: Its short-wavelength failure exposed the ultraviolet catastrophe.Max PlanckCompared with: Its high-frequency failure sharpened the discrepancy Planck’s result resolved.Rayleigh scatteringCompared with: Its name is associated with Rayleigh, but it concerns thermal radiation rather than scattering.Planck's lawCompared with: Its failure at short wavelengths distinguishes Planck's full formula from classical theory.Stefan–Boltzmann lawCompared with: Its failure at high frequencies contrasts with the finite total power described by the law.Ultraviolet catastropheRelated: Its high-frequency divergence is the catastrophe’s mathematical expression.Wien's displacement lawCompared with: Its wavelength-dependent peak behavior differs from the relation derived from the full blackbody spectrum.Brightness temperatureRelated: In this regime, radiance is proportional to brightness temperature.Wien approximationCompared with: It describes the opposite frequency limit and fails where the Wien approximation works.Wilhelm WienCompared with: Its disagreement with observation at short wavelengths exposed the limits of classical radiation theory.Photon gasCompared with: Its high-frequency divergence exposes the failure of classical equipartition for photons.Stefan–Boltzmann constantCompared with: Its ultraviolet divergence prevents it from yielding a finite total emission constant.John William StruttBroader topic: His work on radiation produced a law whose failure helped expose the need for quantum theory.Planck postulateCompared with: Its high-frequency divergence shows what discrete energy exchange corrects.