Advanced Geometry by H.C. Rajpoot-2014

Geometry Level 4

Find out the solid angle (in sr) subtended by a regular tetrahedron at any of its vertices


The answer is 0.551.

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1 solution

Michael Mendrin
Jul 12, 2014

Using the Law of Cosines and area by Spherical Excess in spherical trigonometry, given that the angles at the vertices are π 3 \dfrac { \pi }{ 3 } , the solid angle (which is the area of the spherical triangle as defined by the 3 3 planes of the tetrahedron meeting at the center of an unit sphere) is

3 C o s ( π 3 ) π = 0.551286... 3Cos(\dfrac { \pi }{ 3 } )-\pi =0.551286...

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