Wien's displacement law

English

Etymology

Discovered by German physicist Wilhelm Wien.

Proper noun

Wien's displacement law

  1. (physics) A law stating that the blackbody radiation curve for different temperatures will peak at different wavelengths that are inversely proportional to the temperature.
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