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Optics for Engineers
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Optics for Engineers

by Charles A. DiMarzio
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
564 pages
20h 45m
English
CRC Press
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6 OPTICS FOR ENGINEERS
black body, which we will discuss in Section 12.5, was a topic of much debate. The prevail-
ing theories led to the prediction that the amount of light from a hot object increased with
decreasing wavelength in such a way that the total amount of energy would be innite. This
so-called ultraviolet catastrophe and its obvious contradiction of experimental results con-
tributed in part to the studies that resulted in the new eld of quantum mechanics. Among
the many people who developed the theory of quantum mechanics, Einstein stands out for his
“miraculous year” (1905) in which he produced ve papers that changed physics [29]. Among
his many contributions were the notion of quantization of light [30], which helped resolve
the ...
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ISBN: 9781439807255