Did Planck have an intuition behind the idea of energy quantization of atomic oscillators and radiation, or was it just a mathematical trick to derive his distribution law?
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1$\begingroup$ I think this question belongs more on the history of science and mathematics stack exchange: History of Science and Mathematics $\endgroup$– enumarisOct 17, 2018 at 16:51
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$\begingroup$ That's the definition of physics at a fundamental level: tricky ways to translate the world & experimental results into maths. So he was physicizing (not sure about the word). How did newton realize $F=m\,a$? That'd be complicated I think...Oh, actually is exists on this site $\endgroup$– user7532Oct 17, 2018 at 16:54
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$\begingroup$ Maybe this is what you are looking for: math.lsa.umich.edu/~krasny/math156_article_planck.pdf $\endgroup$– Hugo VOct 17, 2018 at 17:04
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$\begingroup$ I'll migrate this question to History of Science and Mathematics, because it seems to be less about the physical basis of energy quantization than about the thought process Planck used to get there. $\endgroup$– robOct 17, 2018 at 22:27
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1$\begingroup$ Possible duplicate of How did Planck derive the black body radiation formula without using the Bose statistics? $\endgroup$– Francois ZieglerOct 21, 2018 at 18:09
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