What is the color of the sun?
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The color of the sun is white. The sun emits all colors of the rainbow in approximately equal amounts and we call this combination white. That is w...

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?

  • BOMBS@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    the width of the bins is changing when the basis is changed.

    Thank you. Why would they compress/decompress based on how light is measured? I would assume that the x-axis would reflect the same range of light regardless if the light is measured by length or frequency. Why give different ranges of light?