I was thinking that since a sphere's total solid angle is 4pi steradians, each face of the tetrahedron, when projected onto the sphere must subtend pi steradians.
There are formulae to relate the area of a spherical cap; a portion of a sphere; to the area of the circle that defines that cap, but I couldn't find a similar formula for a triangle.
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Posted by Larry
on 2024-02-29 17:29:40 |