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Aconicalfrustumisafrustumcreatedbyslicingthetopoffacone(withthecutmadeparalleltothebase).Foraright
circularcone,let betheslantheightand and thebaseandtopradii.Then

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Thesurfacearea,notincludingthetopandbottomcircles,is

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Thevolumeofthefrustumisgivenby

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But
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so
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Thisformulacanbegeneralizedtoanypyramidbyletting
Thenthevolumecanbewrittenas

bethebaseareasofthetopandbottomofthefrustum.

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Theareaweightedintegralof overthefrustumis
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sothegeometriccentroidislocatedalongthezaxisataheight
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(Eshbach1975,p.453Beyer1987,p.133HarrisandStocker1998,p.105).Thespecialcaseoftheconeisgiven
bytaking
,yielding
.

SEEALSO:

Cone,Frustum,PyramidalFrustum,SphericalSegment
REFERENCES:
Beyer,W.H.(Ed.).CRCStandardMathematicalTables,28thed.BocaRaton,FL:CRCPress,pp.129130and133,1987.
Eshbach,O.W.HandbookofEngineeringFundamentals.NewYork:Wiley,1975.
Harris,J.W.andStocker,H."FrustumofaRightCircularCone."4.7.2inHandbookofMathematicsandComputationalScience.
NewYork:SpringerVerlag,p.105,1998.
Kern,W.F.andBland,J.R."FrustumofRightCircularCone."29inSolidMensurationwithProofs,2nded.NewYork:Wiley,
pp.7175,1948.
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Weisstein,EricW."ConicalFrustum."FromMathWorldAWolframWebResource.
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