Wien's law, <of radiation>
approximate form of Planck's law, valid with an approximation better than one part in 1 000 when the product
where ,
Note 1 to entry: The formula is sometimes written with instead of
, where
Note 2 to entry: For a detector in a medium of refractive index
Note 3 to entry: Wien's law can also be expressed to give the approximate spectral distribution of radiant exitance, .
Note 4 to entry: The quantities radiance, as referred to in Note 2, and radiant exitance, as referred to in Note 3, apply to the unpolarized radiation as emitted.
Note 5 to entry: This entry was numbered 845-04-06 in IEC 60050-845:1987.
Note 6 to entry: This entry was numbered 17-1435 in CIE S 017:2011.