Solid angle a solid angle in steradians is the following ratio: where A is the spherical surface area and r is the radius of the considered sphere. Solid angles are often used in physics, in particular astrophysics. The solid angle of an object that is very far away is roughly proportional to the ratio of area to squared distance. Here "area" means the area of the object when projected along the viewing direction. The solid angle of a sphere measured from any point in its interior is 4 sr, and the solid angle subtended at the center of a cube by one
BET theory physical adsorption of gas molecules. The total surface area formula_19 and the specific surface area formula_20 are given by where formula_5 is in units of volume which are also the units of the monolayer volume of the adsorbate gas, formula_24 is Avogadro's number, formula_25 the adsorption cross section of the adsorbing species, formula_26 the molar volume of the adsorbate gas, and formula_27 the mass of the solid sample or adsorbent. The BET theory can be derived similarly to the Langmuir theory, but by considering multilayered gas molecule adsorption, where it is not required for a layer to be completed before