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Piano man
Oct25-10, 03:59 PM
Expressing Planck's Law as a function of frequency, we have:

I(\nu)=\frac{2h\nu^3}{c^2}\frac{1}{e^{\frac{h\nu}{ kT}}-1}
Expressing this in terms of wavelength, one should get

I(\lambda)=\frac{2hc^2}{\lambda^5}\frac{1}{e^{\fra c{hc}{\lambda kT}}-1}

but I don't see how this is obvious by subbing in c=\lambda \nu
Any insights?

Thanks

arkajad
Oct25-10, 04:48 PM
Remember:

|I(\lambda)d\lambda| =|I(\nu)d\nu|

and

d\lambda=-\frac{c}{\nu^2}d\nu