Some Interesting Facts About Planck’s Law of Blackbody Radiation

Abstract

Introductory textbooks of Modern and Thermal Physics discuss the Planck radiation law as a backbone of the blackbody radiation spectrum. This law is used to explain the intensity of blackbody radiation as a function of either frequency or wavelength at a given temperature. In the introductory coursework, the Planck’s formula is also used to study other blackbody radiation laws such as Stefans–Boltzmann law, Wien’s Displacement law, Rayleigh–Jeans Law and Wien’s Distribution law. In this work, we highlight some interesting facts related to the total energy density, photon number density and average energy of photon of blackbody radiation. The main objective of this work is to focus on the lesser known features associated with physics of blackbody radiation. We believe that these simple analytic calculations may give very useful and interesting information about the Planck radiation law to the undergraduate students.