Tuesday, December 1, 2015

thermal radiation - Planck's Law in terms of wavelength



I am drawing a blank when it comes to equation transformation. Wikipedia gives two equations for the spectral radiance of black body:



  • First as a function of frequency ν: I(ν,T)=2hν3c21ehνkT1

  • Then as a function of wavelength λ : I(λ,T)=2hc2λ51ehcλkT1


And I don't see how they get λ5 term. I'm assuming that the transformation is just νc/λ, but that gives 2hν3c22hcλ32hc2λ5


Similar transformation happens at other parts in the article also. I'm obviously missing something, likely completely trivial.



Answer



Expanding on Ron's comment:


I(ν,T)dν=2hν3c2dνehνkT1 νcλ,dνcdλλ2 I(λ,T)dλ=2hc2(cλ)31ehcλkT1cdλλ2=2hc2λ5dλehcλkT1



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