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
Platonic solid by where "θ" is the dihedral angle. The midradius "ρ" is given by where "h" is the quantity used above in the definition of the dihedral angle ("h" = 4, 6, 6, 10, or 10). Note that the ratio of the circumradius to the inradius is symmetric in "p" and "q": The surface area, "A", of a Platonic solid {"p", "q"} is easily computed as area of a regular "p"-gon times the number of faces "F". This is: The volume is computed as "F" times the volume of the pyramid whose base is a regular "p"-gon and whose height is