The behavior of wavelength changes relative to increasing energy density and absolute temperature of a black body led to an attempted explanation of this phenomenon. The proposed equation was of the form d epsilon equals rho 
The behavior of wavelength changes relative to increasing energy density and absolute temperature of a black body led to an attempted explanation of this phenomenon. The proposed equation was of the form d epsilon equals rho d lambda, which implies that rho is proportional to the temperature and inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength. This hyperbolic curve was extremely divergent from the experimental behavior of rho at low wavelengths. FTP, name this disaster of classical physics, whose resolution by Planck marked the birth of quantum mechanics.
The behavior of wavelength changes relative to increasing energy density and absolute temperature of a black body led to an attempted explanation of this phenomenon.
{ultraviolet catastrophe}