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 Acc to Rayleigh Jeans law, Energy density is proportional to 1/λ4.

It implies that even at room temp, we are bombarded with large amounts of short-wavelenght radiation which is an absurd result, called UV catastrophe.

PS: AFAIK, its not in the JEE syllabus.


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