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Lecture 11: Radiometry (17)
woojinko

For anyone who was confused like me about why the d(theta) integral bound only goes from pi to 0 rather than 2pi to 0 around the circle, it is because spherical coordinates define theta to just be [0,pi] since the [pi, 2pi) range is already covered by the phi values, i.e. rotating a semicircle all the way around its diameter carves out a full sphere https://mathinsight.org/spherical_coordinates

bbtong

Thank you Woojin!

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