Manjit Kumar

“Starting at low temperatures, the poker emits predominantly long-wavelength radiation from the infrared part of the spectrum. As the temperature increases, more…

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“As a perfect emitter at any given temperature, a blackbody emits the maximum amount of heat, infrared radiation. The blackbody spectrum would…

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“Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, then a part of Danish Holstein, on 23 April 1858”

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“Marriage is,’ Einstein said later, ‘the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an incident.”

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“They, however, never occur in practice, only in the mind of the physicist.”

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“When in 1827 the Scottish botanist Robert Brown peered through a microscope at some pollen grains suspended in water, he saw that…

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“James Clerk Maxwell and his theory of electromagnetism. Born in 1831 in Edinburgh, Maxwell, the son of a Scottish landowner, was destined…

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“electricity and magnetism into a set of four elegant mathematical equations. On seeing them, Ludwig Boltzmann immediately recognised the magnitude of Maxwell’s…

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“For him it was no laughing matter, for at stake was the very nature of reality and the soul of physics.”

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“Planck understood that Clausius was not simply stating the obvious, but something of deep significance. Heat, the transfer of energy from A…

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“A talented pianist, he toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a professional musician. Unsure, he sought advice and was…

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“After Elsa’s death, Einstein established a routine that as the years passed varied less and less. Breakfast between 9 and 10 was…

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“The fact that all heated objects emit light of the same colour at the same temperature was well known to potters long…

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“Just as ice, water and steam are different manifestations of H2O, Maxwell showed in 1864 that electricity and magnetism were likewise different…

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“hundred and fifty delegates from 22 countries gathered in Paris, in 1881, for the first International Conference for the Determination of Electrical Units.”

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“Eight men and one woman; six have Nobel Prizes in either physics or chemistry. The woman has two, one for physics awarded…

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“André Marie Ampère demonstrated that two parallel wires were attracted towards one another if each had a current flowing through it in…

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“fifth Solvay conference on ‘Electrons and Photons’, held in Brussels from 24 to 29 October 1927,”

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“A storm broke loose in my mind’, was how he described the surge of creativity that consumed him as he produced his…

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“It was in the 1880s, when German companies tried to develop more efficient light bulbs”

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“Michael Faraday decided to see if he could generate electricity using magnetism.”

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“struck him ‘like a revelation’ he said later, because it possessed ‘absolute, universal validity, independently from all human agency’.23 It was the…

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“It was already known that the rise in temperature would result in an increase in the total amount of energy radiated, but…

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