Solid angle surface area of a spherical cap is always equal to the area of a circle whose radius equals the distance from the rim of the spherical cap to the point where the cap's axis of symmetry intersects the cap. In the diagram this radius is given as: Hence for a unit sphere the solid angle of the spherical cap is given as: When = , the spherical cap becomes a hemisphere having a solid angle 2. The solid angle of the complement of the cone (picture a melon with the cone cut out) is clearly: This is also the solid
Einstein solid Walther Nernst learned of Einstein's 1906 paper on specific heat, he was so excited that he traveled all the way from Berlin to Zürich to meet with him. The heat capacity of an object at constant volume "V" is defined through the internal energy "U" as formula_3, the temperature of the system, can be found from the entropy To find the entropy consider a solid made of formula_5 atoms, each of which has 3 degrees of freedom. So there are formula_6 quantum harmonic oscillators (hereafter SHOs for "Simple Harmonic Oscillators"). Possible energies of an SHO are given by or, in