A right cylinder has height h and radius r. It is sliced by a plane that is tangent to one circular base at A and intersects the other at diameter BC. What is the volume of slice ABCD?

Note that BO=CO=DO=r, AD=h, BC is perpendicular to DO, and AD is perpendicular to DO.

Yes, I get the same answer as Bractals and Charlie taking horizontal slices.

The curvature of the cylinder wall is different from that of a right cone knocked off centre.

Posted by goFish on 2005-11-27 13:56:53