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Past exam of the short options paper of the physics Prelims of the University of Oxford 2021 S03 1 d Solution by
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Convert the skin temperature to . To locate the peak per unit wavelength in Planck's law, write and maximize . Its positive stationary point obeysThis gives Wien's displacement law, . Hencein the thermal infrared. A peak per unit frequency would occur at a different spectral position; this answer uses the conventional wavelength peak.
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