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kyriaki

I am a little confused about how radiant flux relates to solid angle W. Thank you!

motoole2

Radiant flux measures light in terms of Watts. To compute flux, we consider all photons incident on a finite patch (area > 0) and coming from a finite wedge of directions (solid angle > 0). For example, the wedge can represent the hemisphere of possible lighting directions falling onto a patch.