Abstract

A brief discussion showing the significance of substituting wave number for wavelength in the radiation formulas is presented. Expressions for the corollaries of the Wien displacement law are given as well as energy curves based on the Planck equation. A straight line relationship is shown to exist between temperature and wave number at maximum energy.

An appendix contains a bibliography on blackbody radiation since 1930.

© 1953 Optical Society of America

Concerning the Use of the Fabry-Perot Interferometer for Wave-Number Measurement in the Infrared

Joseph H. Jaffe
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(12) 1170-1173 (1953)

Methods of Representing Radiation Formulas

William D. Ross
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 44(10) 770-771 (1954)

On Reversibility and Irreversibility in Optics*

R. Clark Jones
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(2) 138-144 (1953)

Radiation from Isolated Spectral Lines with Combined Doppler and Lorentz Broadening*

S. S. Penner and R. W. Kavanagh
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(5) 385-388 (1953)

Diffraction of Spherical Vector Waves by an Infinite Half-Plane

Keith Leon McDonald
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 43(8) 641-647 (1953)