I Never Understood How Max Planck Really Discovered Quantum Mechanics... Until Now!

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00:00 "I want to be a physicist"
02:30 But what led to the ultra violet catastrophe?
04:40 Which classical assumption is wrong? (Hint: Option 3)
06:22 How to figure out the new partition theorem?
08:47 The new partition theorem!
09:51 Transforming ideas into digital
11:04 How quantisation fixes the problem!
16:23 Rediscovering E = hf intuitively
19:45 Solving the ultra violet catastrophe - once and for all!
21:46 Final challenge - Why does the peak shift with temperature?
25:07 The beginning of quantum theory

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