Blackbody Radiation | Physical Chemistry II | 1.4

Physical chemistry lecture introducing Blackbody radiation. The spectrum of a blackbody is the first experiment we will review that could not be explained by classical mechanics. The Rayleigh-Jeans law was derived from classical mechanics and could not accurately reproduce the experimental spectrum, later Max Planck derived a new expression that accurately reproduced the experimental spectrum by accounting for the quantization of energy. Full derivations are not performed in this video, the focus being solely on understanding the expressions and why they do/don't work.