zetag Messages 1 Reaction score 0 Thread starter Feb 15, 2012 #1 Do Wien's displacement law hold true even for bodies with emissivity not equal to 1, that is, non-black bodies?
Do Wien's displacement law hold true even for bodies with emissivity not equal to 1, that is, non-black bodies?
xts Messages 884 Reaction score 0 Feb 15, 2012 #2 No. Just imagine the body which emissivity is non-zero only in some narrow span (e.g. vapour of Sodium). Regardless of temperature its maximum of emission is always yellow.
No. Just imagine the body which emissivity is non-zero only in some narrow span (e.g. vapour of Sodium). Regardless of temperature its maximum of emission is always yellow.