Frequency form of Wien's displacement law Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-10-18
For Planck's law per unit frequency, setting leaves a positive constant times . Its logarithmic derivative givesThe same uniqueness argument as in the Derivation of Wien's displacement law, with replaced by , selects the positive root. The maxima differ because corresponding positive spectral intervals obeyThe nonconstant Jacobian determinant changes density heights. Consequently . A peak is a property of a specified density, rather than an invariant point of the spectrum. For equal logarithmic intervals, the corresponding densities satisfy and have matching converted peak positions; this is a third convention, distinct from either linear-interval density.