I thought that the frequency of light was directly inverse to the wavelength by a constant. In other words, I assumed that graphing the frequency of light as a function of wavelength would be a straight inverse line. Because of that, the graphs for the distribution of light from the sun as functions of frequency and wavelength would be exactly the same, but reversed. Yet, this is not what is reported in the linked article. Even more confusing to me is that the different functions peak at different light. When as a function of frequency, the light peaks at infrared. When as a function of wavelength, the light peaks at violet.

What am I misunderstanding? Is the frequency of light not directly proportional to it’s wavelength? Or is this something to do with the way we are measuring the light from the Sun?

  • @HootinNHollerin
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    8 months ago

    Inversly by c the speed of light. Question is are the X-axis ranges the same? Is 1000 THz = c/2000 nm and same for lower limit? I’d presume not. c = 2.998x10^8 m/s.

    Edit: well after reading the article instead of just comparing the graphs, I’m in the same boat of confusion