Lambert’s law

optics
Also known as: Bouguer’s law

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  • formulation by Bouguer
    • In Pierre Bouguer

      …formulated Bouguer’s law (sometimes called Lambert’s law), regarding the attenuation of a light beam in a transparent medium. This law and his photometric work he published in his Essai d’optique sur la gradation de la lumière (1729; Optical Treatise on the Gradation of Light).

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application to

    • colorimetry
      • In colorimetry

        …which is also known as Lambert’s law, relates the amount of light absorbed and the distance it travels through an absorbing medium; and Beer’s law relates light absorption and the concentration of the absorbing substance. The two laws may be combined and expressed by the equation log I0/I = kcd,

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    • spectrophotometry
      • Stretching and bending vibrations in organic compounds such as 5-hexene-2-one represent different energy levels within a molecule that can be detected by using infrared spectrophotometry.
        In spectrophotometry

        According to Bouguer’s (or Lambert’s) law, each layer of equal thickness of the medium absorbs an equal fraction of the energy traversing it. According to Beer’s law, the absorptive capacity of a dissolved substance is directly proportional to its concentration in a solution.

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    lux, unit of illumination (see luminous intensity) in the International System of Units (SI). One lux (Latin for “light”) is the amount of illumination provided when one lumen is evenly distributed over an area of one square metre. This is also equivalent to the illumination that would exist on a surface all points of which are one metre from a point source of one international candle (candela). One lux is equal to 0.0929 foot-candle.

    This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.