ON A NONQUANTUM DERIVATION OF PLANCKS DISTRIBUTION LAW

Authors
Citation
C. Cercignani, ON A NONQUANTUM DERIVATION OF PLANCKS DISTRIBUTION LAW, Foundations of physics letters, 11(2), 1998, pp. 189-199
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
ISSN journal
08949875
Volume
11
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
189 - 199
Database
ISI
SICI code
0894-9875(1998)11:2<189:OANDOP>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
We prove that a correct nonquantum treatment of electromagnetic radiat ion leads to Planck's distribution (including zero-point energy). The only principles that we invoke are general invariance principles or, a lternatively, the impossibility of violating the second law at a macro scopic level.