Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2018 Annual Fall Meeting of the APS Ohio-Region Section
Volume 63, Number 15
Friday–Saturday, September 28–29, 2018; University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
Session D01: Plenary Talk II & Banquet |
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Chair: Nikolas Podraza, The University of Toledo Room: SU Ingman Room |
Friday, September 28, 2018 7:00PM - 7:45PM |
D01.00001: BANQUET
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Friday, September 28, 2018 7:45PM - 8:30PM |
D01.00002: Planck’s Antecedents: Ideas and People in Late 19th Century Physics Invited Speaker: Lawrence Anderson-Huang Where did Max Planck come from? Was the idea of quantum radiation a discontinuity in physics or the inevitable consequence of ideas leading up to it? Where did Planck stand prior to 1901 and why did he abandon his deeply held beliefs in continuous matter and radiation? Three areas of physics were advancing rapidly in the late 1800s; thermodynamics, electromagnetic radiation, and statistical mechanics (although the last would not appear as a topic independent of gas theory until 1902). Planck brought them together to bear on the so-called “black radiation” problem, resulting in his thermal radiation distribution function and his Nobel Prize. It took only a few years for the rest of the scientific community to come to terms with his idea. |
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