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Max Planck - Paper

Max Planck

Justin Thomas
Period 4
Chemistry
10/08/96

On April 23, 1858 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, Germany.
He was the sixth child of a law professor at the University of Kiel. At the age
of nine his interest in physics and mathematics was developed by his teacher
Hermann Muller. When he graduated at the age of seventeen he decided to choose
physics over music for his career. Although he is know for physics he was an
exceptional pianist who had acquired the gift of being able to hear absolute
pitch. His favorite works of music were known to be Schubert and Brahms.
Entering the University of Munich in 1874 he got little inspiration and was
unimpressed at the University of ...

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to become a theoretical physicist he started a quest for
absolute laws. His favorite absolute law was the law of the conservation of
energy which was the first law of thermodynamics that stated that you could take
any equal amount of energy and transform it into the same equal amount of energy
ideally, meaning no energy was lost. The second law of thermodynamics led him
to discover the quantum of action or Planck's constant h. How he came upon his
formula for quantum mechanics well be explained as follows. Planck saw that
blackbody radiation acted in an absolute sense because it was defined by
Kirchhoff as a substance that could absorb almost all radiating energy and emit
all that it had absorbed perfectly which is associated with the first law of
thermodynamics. By using various experiments and theoretical failures many
scientists tried to find the spectral energy distribution to try and draw a
diagram of a curve that showed the amount of radiation given off at ...

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Added: 9/26/2005 10:41:28 PM
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