Question

In the Dorben Company and industrial engineer designed a workstation where the seeing task was difficult because of the size of the components going into the assembly. The desired brightness was 100 fL and the workstation was painted a medium green with a reflectance of 50 percent. What illumination in foot-candles would be required at this workstation to provide the desired brightness? Estimated the required illumination if you repainted the workstation with a light cream paint. what is the luminance of a surface having a 50 % reflectance and a 4 fc illumination?

Answer 1

Answer:

Illumination  = 200 fc

luminance =  2FL

Explanation:

given data

desired brightness = 100 fL

painted medium green reflectance = 50 percent

illumination = 4c

solution

we get here Illumination by using the formula that is

Illumination = luminance ÷ reflectance   ......................1

Illumination  = 100 fL ÷ 0.50

Illumination  = 200 fc

With light colored cream paint with a reflectance of 75%  the required illumination is 133 fc.

and

luminance will be

luminance = Illumination × reflectance = 4fc × 0.5 = 2FL