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The Rayleigh–Jeans law describes the energy density of blackbody radiation as proportional to temperature and inversely proportional to the fourth power of wavelength. While it is accurate at long wavelengths, it fails at short wavelengths, resulting in the ultraviolet catastrophe. This issue was resolved by Planck’s quantum theory.
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