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
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