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 | | In physics, the ultraviolet catastrophe, also called the Rayleigh-Jeans catastrophe, is the classical prediction, first made in the late 19th century, that an ideal fl body at thermal equilibrium will emit radiation with infinite power. |
| | It was called the "ultraviolet" catastrophe because ultraviolet radiation had the highest frequencies of any radiation known at the time (X-rays and gamma rays had not been discovered yet). |
| | The ultraviolet catastrophe results from the equipartition theorem of classical statistical mechanics which states that all modes (degrees of freedom) of a system at equilibrium have an average energy of |
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