A surface consisting of the bottom half of a sphere is given by:
Its surface is made of an opaque material. It is lit by a single point omni-directional light source (omni-directional means radiating light in all directions).
What percentage of the half sphere's surface area is lit by the point light source that is positioned at ?
Note: Some of the lit surface is lit externally, and some is lit on the inside surface through the circular hole that is at the top. Take both areas into account.
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A light beam from the point P that just touches the hemisphere's rim at ( cos θ , sin θ , 0 ) touches the bottom of the bowl at the point ( 3 − 2 cos θ 2 ( 1 − cos θ ) , 3 − 2 cos θ 2 sin θ , 3 − 2 cos θ 1 − 2 cos θ ) provided that cos θ > 2 1 (if cos θ < 2 1 , the light beam would have met the upper half of the sphere first, had it been there). These points are precisely the points of intersection of the hemisphere with the plane 2 x − z = 1 . Thus the region R 1 of the hemisphere that is lit on the inside is defined by the inequality 2 x − z ≤ 1 .
The region of the hemisphere that is lit from the outside is the region of the hemisphere that is inside the cone with vertex the point P that is tangent to the sphere. Thus the region R 2 that is lit from outside is defined by the inequality 2 x + z ≥ 1 . Thus the region of the hemisphere that is unlit is defined by the inequality ∣ z ∣ ≥ ∣ 2 x − 1 ∣ . Thus the area of the unshaded region is A = 2 ∬ x 2 + z 2 ≤ 1 , z ≤ 0 , ∣ 2 x − 1 ∣ ≤ ∣ z ∣ 1 − x 2 − z 2 d x d z = 2 ∫ 0 5 4 ( ∫ − 1 − x 2 − ∣ 2 x − 1 ∣ 1 − x 2 − z 2 d z ) d x = 2 ∫ 0 5 4 ( 2 1 π − sin − 1 ( 1 − x 2 ∣ 2 x − 1 ∣ ) ) d x = 2 ∫ 0 5 4 sin − 1 ( 1 − x 2 x ( 4 − 5 x ) ) d x
I have not worked out how to do this one yet, but Mathematica tells me that A = 5 8 tan − 1 ( 5 3 ) − 2 π ( 5 1 − 3 1 ) and this makes the lit proportion equal to 1 − 2 π A = 0 . 7 3 8 6 0 6 , so the answer is 7 3 . 8 6 0 6 .