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.
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re(2): Beg to differ by goFish)
http://www.punahou.edu/acad/sanders/geometrypages/slices.gif
It isn't a cone, it is the sliced edge of a cylinder, like the lower section in the image (link above). Except, sliced edge touches the base of the cylinder.
Edited on November 26, 2005, 8:28 pm
re(3): Beg to differ
