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Q. Assertion : For higher temperatures the peak emission wavelength of a black body shifts to lower wavelengths.
Reason : Peak emission wavelengths of a blackbody is proportional to the fourth power of temperature.

AIIMSAIIMS 2005Thermal Properties of Matter

Solution:

Figure shows that how the energy of a black body radiation varies with temperature and wavelength. As the temperature of the black body increases, two distinct behaviours are
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observed. The first effect is that the peak of the distribution shifts to shorter wavelengths. This shift is found to obey the following relationship called Wien's displacement law.
$\lambda_{m} T=$ constant
The second effect is that the amount of energy, the black body emits per unit area per unit time increases with fourth power of absolute temperature $T$.