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  2. Spherical cap - Wikipedia

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    For example, assuming the Earth is a sphere of radius 6371 km, the surface area of the arctic (north of the Arctic Circle, at latitude 66.56° as of August 2016 [7]) is 2π ⋅ 6371 2 | sin 90° − sin 66.56° | = 21.04 million km 2 (8.12 million sq mi), or 0.5 ⋅ | sin 90° − sin 66.56° | = 4.125% of the total surface area of the Earth.

  3. Schmidt net - Wikipedia

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    The Schmidt net is a manual drafting method for the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection using graph paper. It results in one lateral hemisphere of the Earth with the grid of parallels and meridians. The method is common in geoscience.

  4. Surface area - Wikipedia

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    A sphere of radius r has surface area 4πr 2.. The surface area (symbol A) of a solid object is a measure of the total area that the surface of the object occupies. [1] The mathematical definition of surface area in the presence of curved surfaces is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length of one-dimensional curves, or of the surface area for polyhedra (i.e., objects with ...

  5. Hemispheres of Earth - Wikipedia

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    Northern Hemisphere: The half that lies north of the Equator. This hemisphere contains approximately 68% of Earth's landmass and is home to about 90% of the global population. [4] It includes North America, Europe, Asia, and most of Africa. Southern Hemisphere: The half that lies south of the Equator. It contains approximately 32% of Earth's ...

  6. Spherical sector - Wikipedia

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    If the radius of the sphere is denoted by r and the height of the cap by h, the volume of the spherical sector is =.. This may also be written as = (⁡), where φ is half the cone aperture angle, i.e., φ is the angle between the rim of the cap and the axis direction to the middle of the cap as seen from the sphere center.

  7. Lateral surface - Wikipedia

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    More generally, the lateral surface area of a prism is the sum of the areas of the sides of the prism. [1] This lateral surface area can be calculated by multiplying the perimeter of the base by the height of the prism. [2] For a right circular cylinder of radius r and height h, the lateral area is the area of the side surface of the cylinder ...

  8. Solid angle - Wikipedia

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    The external surface area A of the cap equals r2 only if solid angle of the cone is exactly 1 steradian. Hence, in this figure θ = A/2 and r = 1. The solid angle of a cone with its apex at the apex of the solid angle, and with apex angle 2 θ, is the area of a spherical cap on a unit sphere

  9. Spherical coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    The physics convention.Spherical coordinates (r, θ, φ) as commonly used: (ISO 80000-2:2019): radial distance r (slant distance to origin), polar angle θ (angle with respect to positive polar axis), and azimuthal angle φ (angle of rotation from the initial meridian plane).