Solid Angle - Practical Applications

Practical Applications

• Defining luminous intensity and luminance
• Calculating spherical excess E of a spherical triangle
• The calculation of potentials by using the boundary element method (BEM)
• Evaluating the size of ligands in metal complexes, see ligand cone angle.
• Calculating the electric field and magnetic field strength around charge distributions.
• Deriving Gauss's Law.
• Calculating emissive power and irradiation in heat transfer.
• Calculating cross sections in Rutherford scattering.
• Calculating cross sections in Raman scattering.
• The solid angle of the acceptance cone of the optical fiber