Explain why a graph of total emissive power of an ideal blackbody plotted against the…

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Problem

Explain why a graph of total emissive power

R

of an ideal blackbody plotted against the fourth power of its absolute temperature

T^{4}

is expected to be a straight line passing through the origin.