Solution

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First convert from a spectral energy density per unit frequency to one per unit wavelength, including the Jacobian matrix and determinant:
Set and define . The nonzero maximum satisfies , with numerical root . Consequently
This is Wien's displacement law. One must maximize the wavelength density, rather than find the frequency maximum and merely put : the frequency and wavelength peaks of Planck's law are different because a spectral density changes under a change of coordinate.

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