Use Wien's law (see Problem 44) to answer the following questions: (a) The cosmic background radiation peaks

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Use Wien's law (see Problem 44) to answer the following questions:

(a) The cosmic background radiation peaks in intensity at a wavelength of 1.1 mm. To what temperature does this correspond?

(b) Ab out 379 000 y after the big bang, the universe became transparent to electromagnetic radiation. Its temperature then was 2970 K. What was the wavelength at which the background radiation was then most intense?

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Fundamentals of Physics

ISBN: 978-0471758013

8th Extended edition

Authors: Jearl Walker, Halliday Resnick

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