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Rayleigh-Jeans law
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Rayleigh-Jeans law [¦rā·lē ′jēnz ‚lȯ]
(statistical mechanics)
A law giving the intensity of radiation emitted by a blackbody within a narrow band of wavelengths; it states that this intensity is proportional to the temperature divided by the fourth power of the wavelength; it is a good approximation to the experimentally verified Planck radiation formula only at long wavelengths.


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