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Water Equivalent

The mass of water that absorbs or releases the exact same amount of heat as a calorimeter body for an identical temperature change.

w = m_cal c_cal / c_water kg (or g) Thermodynamics & Statistical Physics

Wien's Displacement Law

The physical law stating that peak emission wavelength of a blackbody spectrum is inversely proportional to its absolute temperature.

λ_max T = b ≈ 2.89777 × 10⁻³ m·K m·K