solid angle
Measure of a subtended portion of a sphere, used to describe the apparent size of items in a three-dimensional field of view
EntityQ208476
Also known as Ω · solid angular measure
- Subclass of
Overview
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34 statements · 18% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Different from
- angle criterion used: quantity dimension
- angular measure
- Defining formula
\Omega = A / r^2
- In defining formula
\Omegasymbol represents: solid angleAsymbol represents: arearsymbol represents: radius
- Quantity symbol (LaTeX)
\Omegaunicode character: Ω · notation: Ω/ω
On other databases
17 identifiers linking solid angle across the web's reference databases
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/15533
- Elhuyar ZTH ID032531
- Encyclopedia of Mathematics article IDSolid_angle
- Freebase ID/m/0nb0h
- IEV number102-04-46
- Interlingual Index IDi109925
- IUPAC Gold Book IDS05732
- MathWorld IDSolidAngle
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)166070808
- Open Library subject IDsolid_angle
- OpenAlex IDC166070808
- ProofWiki IDDefinition:Solid_Angle
- QUDT dimension IDA0E0L0I0M0H0T0D1
- QUDT quantity kind IDSolidAngle
- Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica IDangolo-solido
- Wolfram Language quantity IDSolidAngle
- Wurvoc.org measure IDSolid_angle