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Radiometric and Photometric Quantities and Laws

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Sustainable Indoor Lighting

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The chapter is devoted to the description of the main quantities and laws used to describe how real bodies emit optical radiation and receive it from the environment. In particular, the radiometric quantities are introduced in Sect. 2; then, taking into account the human eye sensitivity, in Sect. 4, the photometric quantities are described in the same order of the radiometric ones.

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  1. CNR-INO National Institute of Optics, Largo E. Fermi, 6, 50125, Florence, Italy

    A. Giannini

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  1. CNR-INO, Firenze, Italy

    Paola Sansoni

  2. CNR-INO, Firenze, Italy

    Luca Mercatelli

  3. CNR-INO, Firenze, Italy

    Alessandro Farini

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Giannini, A. (2015). Radiometric and Photometric Quantities and Laws. In: Sansoni, P., Mercatelli, L., Farini, A. (eds) Sustainable Indoor Lighting. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6633-7_1

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