Synopsis
Max Planck was interested in why light changed colour as it got hotter, so built a black-body radiator to measure the frequency of light produced.
- Programme: The Secrets of Quantum Physics
- Episode: Einstein's Nightmare
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Physics
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