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I hope this is the right place. Since the law is derived from statistical mechanics, I assumed this was the place to post. I understand how the Wien's Displacement law is derived. What I don't understand, other than mathematically, is why there is a difference between the peak intensity as measured by wavelength and frequency. Wikipedia does as good a job as anyone in providing the background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien's_displacement_law
Seeing as each wavelength has a one-to-one correspondence with a particular frequency, I would expect that the peak would occur at the same place when plotted against either. Again, I understand how, from the math, we find that it doesn't. What is wrong with my thinking?
If I were to go do an experiment and, let's say, filter out all light except for a particular frequency/wavelength, and do this repeatedly across the spectrum, which plot would I expect and why?
Thanks.
Seeing as each wavelength has a one-to-one correspondence with a particular frequency, I would expect that the peak would occur at the same place when plotted against either. Again, I understand how, from the math, we find that it doesn't. What is wrong with my thinking?
If I were to go do an experiment and, let's say, filter out all light except for a particular frequency/wavelength, and do this repeatedly across the spectrum, which plot would I expect and why?
Thanks.