Solution

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For Planck law expressed per unit frequency, put . At fixed temperature, the frequency dependence is . Differentiation gives
The positive interior maximum therefore satisfies , with independent of temperature. The zero solution of the rearranged equation is a boundary, not the interior maximum. Hence the frequency form of Wien's displacement law is
This frequency peak is not divided by the peak wavelength of : the two spectral densities differ by the frequency-to-wavelength Jacobian.

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