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Candelas, Lumens and Lux By Owen Ransen A light introduction to illumination terms, ideas, and mathematics. Samples of the first two pages of each chapter. Table of Contents How to use this book5 1. Candelas, Lumens and Lux6 2. Luminance34 3. Photometries5 4. Internal Lighting64 5. Glare84 6. Roadway Lighting112 7. Light sources and efficiency134 How to use this book This book is for people who are starting to learn about lighting engineering or who need to know the basics of the subject. Ive made it as simple, using graphical explanations of mathematical and physical ideas. There is mathematics in this book, but nothing beyond high school level, a few formulas, a tiny bit of trigonometry, nothing you need to be scared of! A s weve seen in the financial crisis of 2008/2009, mathematics without a concrete idea of what it is happening in the real world can lead to disaster. So this book has more drawings than formulas. There are some short quizzes with answers. The full working of the answers is given in the chapter itself and on this website : /Photometric/Answers.htm It is really very useful for you to do these quick quizzes. Once you have finished the book (and even as you are reading it) remember to use the index to look up ideas and terms which you are not sure about. 3 1. Candelas, Lumens and Lux Light is a strange as everything else in the universe, but here Ill be talking about light rays, and drawing them, as if they are simple straight lines of white intensity. This is a justifiable simplification for practical purposes of this book. Candelas are the units of luminous intensity and you can imagine them as very thin rays of light. So a single ra