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Max Planck . By: Puneet Sekhon and Navreet Brar . Personal Life of Planck. Born in Kiel, Holstein on April 23/ 1858 Would have become a musician Studied at the University of Munich Won a Nobel Prize in 1918 Married twice in his lifetime; had five children
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Max Planck By: PuneetSekhon and Navreet Brar
Personal Life of Planck • Born in Kiel, Holstein on April 23/ 1858 • Would have become a musician • Studied at the University of Munich • Won a Nobel Prize in 1918 • Married twice in his lifetime; had five children • Died in Gottingen, Germany on October 4, 1947
Idea of the Atom • Atoms absorb and emit energy in bundles, called quanta, instead of in a continuous wave. This theory was called the quantum theory. • Equation for one quanta: • E=hv; (E = energy, v = frequency, h= a very tiny proportionality constant) • H= 6.626 x 1034; reflects the size of one quanta.
Area of Study • Area of study was physics, interested in relationship of heat and radiation • Plank’s law: a law that explains that certain wavelength is radiated by a black body at the same temperature • Using the Plank’s law, Max Planck described the black body radiation, by proposing that electromagnetic radiation was emitted in quanta.
Major Scientific Contribution • Discovered quantum physics • Law of heat radiation, named Planck's law of black body radiation. • Developed Planck’s law • Discovered Plank’s constant, E = hv (the h = 6.626 x 1034)
Bibliography • http://library.thinkquest.org/C0122360/full/planck_e.html • http://www.thebigview.com/spacetime/quantumtheory.html • http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1918/planck-bio.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck • http://srikant.org/core/node12.html • Chemistry 11 Textbook