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Both J.P. Morgan's Cembalest and Wien's guru believe that in the short term the stock market is up, but that longer term, national deficits must force major austerity programs.
A Frightening Peek Into The Smartest Money Men's Crystal Ball 2010
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Both J.P. Morgan's Cembalest and Wien's guru believe that in the short term the stock market is up, but that longer term, national deficits must force major austerity programs.
A Frightening Peek Into The Smartest Money Men's Crystal Ball 2010
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In younger textbooks, the relationship lambda x T = const. lambda is the wavelength is called Wien's displacement law, but this is not entirely correct.
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Georg Hoffmann wrote that this figure illustrates Wien's displacement law.
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The average wavelength of electromagnetic emissions becomes shorter with increasing temperature (see above Wien's Law).
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Wien's Law suggests that as the temperature of a body increases, the wavelength of maximum emission becomes smaller.
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According to Wien's Law, bodies with temperatures at this level or lower would emit their radiation in the longwave band.
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Albert Einstein in 1905 drew the conclusion that light sometimes behaves as particles through an ingenious statistical analysis of Wien's formula for the wave length distribution of heat radiation.
The Dual Nature of Light as Reflected in the Nobel Archives 1999
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Einstein repeated the statistical calculation with Planck's formula as the basis, which is more general than Wien's, and drew the conclusion that both the concept of waves and the concept of particles in the light heat bath in a cavity are called for.
The Dual Nature of Light as Reflected in the Nobel Archives 1999
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The importance of Wien's displacement law extends in various directions.
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