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- Start Date: 7 Dec 2010
- End Date: 7 Dec 2010
- Venue:
CIBSE
222 Balham High Road
London
SW12 9BS - Rates:
- CIBSE members rate £ 316.60 (£ 263.83 ex. VAT)
- Non members rate £ 337.02 (£ 280.85 ex. VAT)
A642 Lighting Basics 1: Light, Sight & Colour - London
Trainer - Dr Robert Bean
This is an introductory course intended for delegates who need an understanding of the physical and psychophysical aspects of lighting. The objective is to enable delegates to understand the relationships between lighting units and quantities sufficiently well to either meet their current needs or to provide a good basis for further study.
Complete in itself, 1st of a series of Courses giving a comprehensive introduction to interior & exterior lighting.
10.00 - 11.10 - Session 1
Electromagnetic radiation. Energy flow, light. Lighting quantities: Flux, efficacy, intensity, illuminance, laws of illumination, luminance, reflection characteristics of surfaces.
11.10 - 11.35 - Coffee
11.35 - 12.45 - Session 2
Lighting Measurements. Photoelectric cells; illuminance, luminance, flux, intensity distribution. Fundamentals of vision: Structure of eye, mechanism of vision, photopic, mesopic and scotopic vision.
12.45 - 13.45 - Lunch
13.45 - 14.55 - Session 3
Visual Characteristics. Perception of detail, visual performance, adaptation, flicker, glare, perception of objects and spaces.
14.55 - 15.20 - Tea
15.20 - 16.30 - Session 4
Colour. Mixing, RGB colour system, XYZ colour system, Specification of colour appearance, correlated colour temperature, surface colours, specification of colour rendering.
