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Light was being treated as waves in the 19th century because phenomena like interference, diffraction, refraction, and reflection could all be explained by viewing light as propagating waves. Lord Rayleigh and James Jeans calculated the radiation emitted by a cavity at absolute temperature T, with the density of standing waves in the cavity given by a specific formula. Their calculations did not match experimental results at higher frequencies, requiring a new explanation of the interaction between light an

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Nafiul Hossain Nabil

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