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In classical physics how does an atomic oscillator behave when heated in terms of energy emissions?
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The oscillator starts at relatively low frequency and emits electromagnetic radiation of relatively low frequency (or long wavelength) and low intensity. As the heating continues, the frequency of oscillation also increases as does the frequency of the emitted radiation and the intensity of the radiation. A graph of intensity vs. wavelength would start high on the left (at short wavelengths) and fall off to the right exponentially to low intensity at long wavelengths. This graph would be at odds with the experimentally established graph of intensity vs. wavelength(which shows low intensity at short wavelengths) because the classical assumption that frequency of oscillation can increase continuously as the oscillators are heated is not correct. Frequency of oscillation can increase only in integral multiples of the fundamenal frequency.
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