Lighting Design

The Electrical Power PE test has 10% allocated for Special Applications including Illumination. I have a IESNA (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America) handbook and read through the Chapter 10: IESNA Lighting Design Geide and the PPI chapter on Illumination.

If you don't have access to these resources and want to have the basic Illumination topics covered I found 99% of this information available on the web. Once you know what terms to look up, most of them are on Wikipedia, but here are some additional sources that I found useful:

• Lighting Basics & Terminology
• Basic Lighting Calculations
• Osram's Technical Basics of Light (Electromagnetic Spectrum, Blackbody Radiation, Planck Radiation Law)
• Color Temperature (Wikipedia)
• What is a Candela (Wise Geek)
• Lumens, Illuminance, Footcandles
• Basic Lighting Laws (International Dark Sky Association) Inverse Square Law, Lambert's Law, Cosine-Cubed Law
• Luminance vs. Illuminance (Duke University)
• Reflection vs. Refraction (Berkley)
• Diffraction, Interference, Interference from Slits (University of Michigan physic's lab)

IESNA makes its 100 significant papers available for free online, which has tons of good information. Two of them in particular cover subjects from the manual fairly well:

• A Lumen Method of Daylighting Design
• A Versatile Method for Calculating Illumination and Brightness which goes over cavity ratios