Solid Angles

Author(s):  
Matthias Beck ◽  
Sinai Robins
Keyword(s):  
2020 ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
M. I. Kalinin ◽  
L. K. Isaev ◽  
F. V. Bulygin

The situation that has developed in the International System of Units (SI) as a result of adopting the recommendation of the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM) in 1980, which proposed to consider plane and solid angles as dimensionless derived quantities, is analyzed. It is shown that the basis for such a solution was a misunderstanding of the mathematical formula relating the arc length of a circle with its radius and corresponding central angle, as well as of the expansions of trigonometric functions in series. From the analysis presented in the article, it follows that a plane angle does not depend on any of the SI quantities and should be assigned to the base quantities, and its unit, the radian, should be added to the base SI units. A solid angle, in this case, turns out to be a derived quantity of a plane angle. Its unit, the steradian, is a coherent derived unit equal to the square radian.


2019 ◽  
pp. 86-93
Author(s):  
G. L. Bochek ◽  
O. S. Deiev ◽  
V. I. Kulibaba ◽  
N. I. Maslov ◽  
V. D. Ovchinnik ◽  
...  

Gamma radiation spectra of 1200 MeV electrons from the single crystals of the beryllium 1.2 mm thick, silicon 1.5 mm and 15 mm thick and tungsten 1.18 mm thick along of the crystallographic axes were measured. Also spectral-angular distributions of gamma radiation from the silicon single crystals 1.5 mm thick along of the crystallographic axes < 100 >, < 110 > and < 111 > were measured. On the basis of these measurements the γ-radiation spectra for the different solid angles up to 6.97 × 10−6 sr were obtained.


1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1179-1180
Author(s):  
A. V. Teplov
Keyword(s):  

1990 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Folke Eriksson
Keyword(s):  

Geophysics ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 877-877
Author(s):  
Shri Krishna Singh

It is difficult to include all references when dealing with a subject so well studied as the gravitational attraction of a circular disc. Although the practical usefulness of Nettleton’s paper can not be denied by anyone, it nevertheless gives no details (except for some references) of the computation of solid angles subtended by a disc from which his graphs (Geophysics, 1942, Figure 4) result. My short note deals with (in what I consider an easy way of) obtaining a closed form expression for the solid angle. For applications of the result the reader would do well to look up Nettleton’s classic paper.


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