(physics) The four physical laws which, together, fundamentally describe the behavior of blackbody radiation, Kirchhoff's law, Planck's law, Stefan-Boltzmann law, and Wien's law. All of the more inclusive assemblage of empirical and theoretical laws describing all manifestations of radiative phenomena.
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| electrodynamics (branch of electricity, physics) |
| Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (German physicist) |
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- Parsimony
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