International Journal of Natural Sciences and Interdisciplinary Research(IJNSIR)

Institute of Science, Pavlodar State Pedagogical Margulan University, Kazakhstan

Publications

• Research Article   
  Planck’s Radiation Law, The Light Quantum, and Indistinguishability in the Teaching of Quantum Statistics
  Author(s): Peter M. Enders* and Zhumanazar R. Aibekuly
  
  Planck’s 1900 introduction of the “energy elements”, i.e., electromagnetic radiation quanta of energy hν each, for founding his radiation law marks the origin of quantum theory and is discussed in all courses on this subject. Surprisingly, the question whether Planck really implied quantisation is debated among historians of physics. We present a simplified account of that debate which also sheds light on the issue of indistinguishability and Einstein’s light quantum hypothesis. Here, the relevance of the notion ‘(in)distinguishability’ is often overemphasized. It has to be treated together with ‘equality’, ‘identity’, and ‘interchangeability’, where the latter one is the decisive notion in this context. As a result, the difference between Planck’s and Einstein’s concepts of ‘light particles&r.. Read More»
  

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