Where Does the Power Go?
Hi All,
Even armed with college texts on optics, Cecil hasn't got a whisper of
a chance in actually answering a direct question such as has been
posed below. A Xerox is not, after all, a calculator (nor does it
impart knowledge). As such, I will offer direct answers and let it go
at that.
On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:03:34 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:
There is a common bare light bulb 1 meter away;
it illuminates a cm² target with 3µW @ 55nM of POWER;
what is:
the number of candela per steradians,
at the target,
from total bandwidth radiation?
5
or:
How much power is being supplied to the bulb?
100W
Can you see this amount of light on the target?
Depending upon the infirmities claimed: none to some.
Aside: only 0.7% as bright as the sun, in the tropics, at noon, on an
equinox.
73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC
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