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Introduction to Modern
Physics
Physics around 1900
Newtonian Physics
Failures of Newtonian
physics
Modern Physics
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Failures of Newtonian physics I
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Failure of classical physics gives rise to modern physics
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Everything deviating from New tonian mechanics has been
considered as modern physics
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Michelson and Morley Experiment (1887)
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Light was unaffected by the motion of the observer
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Speed of light does not depend on the direction of the ligh t
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The properties of glowing hot bodies could not be
explained. Heat theory failed to explain the energy emitted
by a blackbody
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Heat is the thermal motion of atoms in a body. Consider
heat trapped in a cavity ( blackbody).
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The emitte d sp ectrum of energy becomes infinite as the
energy of radiation increases!
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However, measured spectrum o f real blackbodies show an
increase and then cut-off