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SphericalShell[c,{rinner,router}]
represents a filled spherical shell centered at c with inner radius rinner and outer radius router.
Details and OptionsThe standard spherical shell at the origin:
Scope (20) Graphics (10) Specification (5)Spherical shells with different outer radii:
Spherical shells with different inner radii:
Short form for a spherical shell with radii at the origin:
Short form for a spherical shell with radii at the origin:
Styling (4)Different properties can be specified for the front and back of faces using FaceForm:
Spherical shells with different specular exponents:
White spherical shell that glows red:
Opacity specifies the face opacity:
Regions (10)Embedding dimension is the dimension of the space in which the spherical shell lives:
Geometric dimension is the dimension of the shape itself:
Get conditions for point membership:
The equidistance contours for a spherical shell:
Nearest points to an enclosing sphere:
Integrate over a spherical shell region:
Optimize over a spherical shell region:
Solve equations in a spherical shell region:
Applications (5)A standard Ping-Pong ball, a spherical shell, has a mass of 2.7 grams and an outer radius of 40 millimeters:
It is made of celluloid, which has a density of . Knowing that , find the inner radius of a Ping-Pong ball:
The thickness is the difference between the inner and outer radius:
It was once believed that the universe was a system of concentric celestial spheres. At the center of the universe was Earth, and surrounding it were the spherical shells for the planets and the Sun. There was disagreement about the exact order of the planets and the Sun. Plato and Ptolemy ordered the celestial spheres differently:
Visualize and compare the two philosophers' universes using a set of labeled spherical shells:
A pearl is formed, layer by layer, by a mollusk. The pearl's optical properties come from light reflecting off many translucent layers, as opposed to only an opaque surface layer. The difference that translucent layers make can be seen by creating two sets of nested spherical shells that differ in opacity:
Golf balls have multiple layers, the outer, dimpled shell, and one or more inner layers. Model the outer layer as the RegionDifference between a spherical shell and a collection of balls. Get a distribution for the dimples using the MeshCoordinates of a sphere's mesh:
Discretize the region over an interval to get a "cut-away" view of half of it:
Finally, make a ball for the inner core of the golf ball, offset from the center to get a visual separation of layers:
A balloon can be approximated as a spherical shell. Suppose the balloon is made of 10 units of material. Find out how the thickness depends on the outer radius of the balloon:
Suppose the material is such that under the given conditions it will break if it has thickness less than . Find the largest possible outer radius balloon given that constraint:
Here are some different cases of the solution visualized:
Properties & Relations (4) Neat Examples (3)Random spherical shell collections:
Corkscrewing spherical shells:
Wolfram Research (2015), SphericalShell, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SphericalShell.html. TextWolfram Research (2015), SphericalShell, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SphericalShell.html.
CMSWolfram Language. 2015. "SphericalShell." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SphericalShell.html.
APAWolfram Language. (2015). SphericalShell. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SphericalShell.html
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