July 2021
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
11h 24m
English
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CHAPTER 10
SLICING
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SECTIONS
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In Chapter 8, we learned how to figure out how much volume is contained inside different 3D shapes,
and in Chapter 9, we computed the surface area of many of them. In this chapter, we explore what
happens when we slice a prism, cylinder, or cone with an infinitely long plane. The resulting 2D shape is
called a section. You are probably familiar with cross-s ...