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The relation between color and temperature: Wien's Law

``Say it with equations''

A blackbody radiator glows brightest (is most intense) at a wavelength (in meters) tex2html_wrap_inline93 . tex2html_wrap_inline95 is related to the temperature (in Kelvins) by Wien's Law:

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Steve Spangler
Wed Aug 25 11:21:43 CDT 1999