Timeline for Why Does Planck's Relation $E=hf$ Imply a Linear Relationship Only for Sinusoidal Frequency Bases?
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| Mar 10 at 11:56 | history | edited | Noct | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 10 at 11:50 | history | edited | Noct | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 10 at 11:42 | history | edited | Noct | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 10 at 11:17 | comment | added | Noct | And that's because $\exp(i\omega)$ is the most physical representation of a pure frequency when your systems can be understood as some variation of a harmonic oscillator (physics.stackexchange.com/questions/716271/…). | |
| Mar 10 at 8:25 | comment | added | Noct | Hi, then you are asking question: why we want solutions that are harmonic in time. When you assume that, you get the energy as described. However, spatial form of the solution does not matter. | |
| Mar 9 at 22:41 | comment | added | CuriousMind | We could also represent the propagating field with any other basis different of plane waves, like triangular or square waves. The strange thing is that we choose plane waves for simplicity and that matches with reality by pure coincidence? | |
| Mar 9 at 19:46 | history | answered | Noct | CC BY-SA 4.0 |