Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2010 / ii / Paper 2 / 10D / Solution

The photon number density is obtained by integrating the Planck photon distribution. With $x=h\nu /(kT)$,The integral converges, since its integrand is of order $x$ near zero and decays exponentially at infinity. Hence $n=\alpha T^3$, with $\alpha$ independent of temperature.

For equilibrium radiation undergoing adiabatic expansion, the total entropy in a comoving volume is constant. Since the entropy density is $\beta T^3$, this means $\beta T^{3}V$ is constant. A comoving volume scales as the cube of the scale factor, soThis agrees with the cosmological redshift of each photon frequency. The conclusion uses entropy conservation during the expansion.