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Results

In addition to the basic Stefan's law for , the total radiated power, Eq. (1), the more detailed results of this experiment are the curves for . These curves have the interesting property that they can all be rescaled to fall on top of each other. The most general expression of Wien's Displacement Law is that

 

where is some universal function independant of frequency and temperature.

This form indicates that if we were to define new ``scaled'' variables,

then simply, , so that if we were to plot all of our data from different temperatures and frequencies on a plot with these ``scaled'' variables, all of the data would fall on the same curve, as in the figure below.



Prof. Tomas Alberto Arias
Tue Oct 10 16:52:34 EDT 1995