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A cone is a geometric body consisting of a plane base bounded by a closed curve (the directrix) and every point of this curve is joined to a fixed point (the apex or vertex) lying outside the plane of the base. A pyramid is a special case of a cone with a polygonal base. If the directrix is a circle and the apex is perpendicularly above the center of the circle then the cone is a right circular cone. Then the cone has a rotational symmetry around the straight line passing through the apex (the axis of the cone). Each of the line segments between the apex and the base circle is a generatrix. The main interest of this page is to see how right circular cones can be developed into a plane. This is a right circular cone:
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The cone developing into a plane:
This is a plane development of a cone:
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To calculate the lateral surface area of a cone we need the slant height. The slant height is the distance from the base circle to the apex of the cone (the generatrix as a segment). There is a relation between the slant height and the height of a cone (Pythagorean theorem).
We are going to calculate the lateral surface area of a cone that is the area of a circular sector. If R is the base radius, the formula for the lateral surface area of a cone is like the formula for the area of a triangle. (The intuitive reason is like Kepler in Kepler and the area of a circle ):
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Do you remember the formula for the volume of a cone?
A cone with its apex cut off by a plane is called a truncated cone. If this truncation plane is parallel to the base then the body is called a conical frustum. For example, this is a conical frustum:
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A conical frustum developing into a plane:
And this is its plane development:
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As before, we need the slant height to calculate the lateral surface area of a frustum:
We can think, intuitively, that a cylindrical frustum is like a pyramidal frustum "with an infinite number of lateral faces". This is a very imprecise way of thinking that can remind us the origins of the Calculus, like Kepler's era. We can remind that the formula for the lateral surface area of a pyramidal frustum is like the area of a trapezoid (lateral faces are congruent trapezoids). When we calculate the lateral surface area of a conical frustum, the formula reminds us the formula for the trapezoid again:
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Plane developments of geometric bodies (3): Cylinders

We study different cylinders and we can see how they develop into a plane. Then we explain how to calculate the lateral surface area.
Plane developments of geometric bodies (2): Prisms cut by an oblique plane

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'Underweysung der Messung' ('Four Books of Measurement'), published in 1525 .
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Matematicas Visuales | Plane developments of geometric bodies (7): Cone and conical...

Geometry Real Analysis Complex Analysis Probability History

Help Contact Links Site Map Updates

The cone developing into a plane:

This is a plane development of a cone:

Do you remember the formula for the volume of a cone?

A conical frustum developing into a plane:

And this is its plane development:

Plane developments of geometric bodies (4): Cylinders cut by an oblique plane

Plane developments of geometric bodies (3): Cylinders

Plane developments of geometric bodies (2): Prisms cut by an oblique plane

Plane developments of geometric bodies (1): Nets of prisms

Plane developments of geometric bodies: Dodecahedron

'Underweysung der Messung' ('Four Books of Measurement'), published in 1525 .

Cavalieri: The volume of a sphere

The volume of the tetrahedron

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