Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 73 1 vi a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
For Planck law expressed per unit frequency, put . At fixed temperature, the frequency dependence is . Differentiation givesThe 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 isThis frequency peak is not divided by the peak wavelength of : the two spectral densities differ by the frequency-to-wavelength Jacobian.