Monday, June 13, 2011

Solid Geometry

Solid geometry is concerned with three-dimensional shapes. Some examples of three-dimensional shapes are cubes, rectangular solids, prisms, cylinders, spheres, cones and pyramids. We will also discuss some nets of solids.

Cubes

A cube is a three-dimensional figure with six matching square sides.

cube

The figure above shows a cube. The dotted lines indicate edges hidden from your view.

If s is the length of one of its sides, the

Volume of the cube = s3

Since the cube has six square-shape sides, the

Surface area of a cube = 6s2

Rectangular Solids

In a rectangular solid, the length, width and height may be of different lengths.

rectangular solid

The volume of the above rectangular solid would be the product of the length, width and height that is

Volume of rectangular solid = lwh

Surface area of rectangular solid = 2(lw + wh + lh)

Quiz section
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