Ultraviolet Catastropheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

ultraviolet catastrophe

1. (physics) A fault in classical physics, from the Rayleigh's law/Rayleigh-Jeans law outcomes at short wavelengths/high frequencies, that causes infinite amplification of shorter wavelength/higher frequency radiation inside a cavity, due to the application of equipartition theorem on black body radiation within a cavity.

使用する際の注意点

• This does not literally refer to the explosion of ultraviolet radiation, rather any radiation shorter than a specific limiting size of propagating radiation in a set sized cavity, dependent on the size of the cavity.

同意語

• Rayleigh-Jeans catastrophe
• Rayleigh catastrophe / Rayleigh's catastrophe

等位語

• black body / Kirchoff's black body
• black body radiation
• Kirchoff's challenge
• molecular theory (Wien's displacement law)
• equipartition theorem (Rayleigh-Jeans law)
• Rayleigh's law (classical physics; 1900-1905) (suitable for low-frequency/long-wavelength radiation)
• Rayleigh-Jeans law (classical physics; post-1905) (suitable for low-frequency/long-wavelength radiation)
• Wien's distribution law (classical physics) (suitable for high-frequency/short-wavelength radiation)
• Planck's law (quantum physics) (a combination of Raleigh and Wien laws)

関連する語

• oxygen catastrophe
• vacuum catastrophe