STANDARDS, NOMENCLATURE, ABBREVIATIONS 3-5

Table 3-2
continued:
QUANTITY UNITS
ABBREVIA-
TIONS
SYM-
BOLS
DEFINING EQUATIONS
LIGHTINGPHOTOMETRY
Luminosity lumen per watt lm watt
-1
K K =
n/*x
factor
Luminous flux lumen
*lumerg/sec
lm F
^pharos \lumin flm
W
Quantity of light lumen-hour lm-hr
Q Q.
=
J'Fdt {t in hrs)
'luminous *talbot *lm-sec
energy
jphos \lumen-second tlm-sec to \Q
=
y
Fdt (t in sec)
\phosage \lumen-second per
square meter
flm-sec m
-2
w \w
=
1/A
J"
Fit (t in sec)
Illumination footcandles ft-c E E
= dF/dA
lux be (A
= area of surface illumi-
phot ph nated)
*
Illuminance E
\pharosage \lumtns per square
meter
flm m~
2
W \D
= dF/dA
Luminous in- candle c I I
= dF/dos
tensity or can- (oi = solid angle through which
dlepower flux from point source
is radiated)
Brightness candles per unit area c/in
2
B B = dI(dA cos 6)
stilb sb (6
= angle between line of sight
apostilb lm m~
2
and normal to surface con-
sidered)
lambert L
footlambert ft-L B' B' = xdI(dA cos 6)
apparent
footcandle
'Luminance
]Helios \blondel tbl \B \H
= ir(dD/du) cos 4>
(w = solid angle
^
= angle of incidence of cen-
tral ray)
\Heliostnt jblondel per meter tbl m- ]G \o = dH/dr
(r
= distance along central ray)
* p
roposed by the Colorimetry Committee of the O.S.A. (nonstandard).
18
t
Proposed by Moon (nonstandard).
18
Except where indicated the following material has been revised and con-
densed for handbook publication from the standard nomenclature. The
three subdivisions immediately following, on radiation, light, and light
measurement, deal with fundamental concepts.
1. Radiation Terms
Radiant energy travels in the form of electromagnetic waves.
Radiant energy density is radiant energy per unit volume.
Spectral radiant energy is radiant energy per unit wavelength interval AX,
at wavelength X.
Radiant flux is the time rate of flow of radiant energy.
Radiant
flux
density is the ratio of radiant flux at an element of surface
to the area of the element.