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Wien's displacement law states that the wavelength of highest intensity in the radiation from a blackbody is something like:
[tex] \lambda_{max} = \frac{2.898*10^{-3}}{T} [/tex]
in meters, where T is the temperature given in kelvins.
If you try to transform this law into frequency one would expect that we should have:
[tex] f_{max} = \frac{c}{\lambda_{max}} [/tex]
but apparently this is not the case! Why is it like that?
I mean, if you have a blackbody radiation field it will have a maximum of intensity at some frequency, but shouldn't that frequency coincide with the wavelenght for which it has the maximum intensity?
Please help!
[tex] \lambda_{max} = \frac{2.898*10^{-3}}{T} [/tex]
in meters, where T is the temperature given in kelvins.
If you try to transform this law into frequency one would expect that we should have:
[tex] f_{max} = \frac{c}{\lambda_{max}} [/tex]
but apparently this is not the case! Why is it like that?
I mean, if you have a blackbody radiation field it will have a maximum of intensity at some frequency, but shouldn't that frequency coincide with the wavelenght for which it has the maximum intensity?
Please help!