Verification for 1/ (distance squared) value of light intensity with desk light and basic lux-metre
distance (in meters) 1/ dist square of dist substracted ligth value raw light 1/R^2 expectation
0,5 4,00 616 618 616,00
1 1,00 138 140 154,00
1,5 0,44 65 67 68,44
2 0,25 37 39 38,50
3 0,11 19 21 17,11
4 0,06 12 14 9,63
substracted light value (lux) = measured value - measured background
in a partly occulted room, the background was reasonably uniform at 2 lux
31-oct-06 jmf