Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Area of Cylinder Calculation

Introduction:

A cylinder is one of the most basic curvilinear geometric shapes, the surface formed by the points at a fixed distance from a given straight line, the axis of the cylinder. The solid enclosed by this surface and by two planes perpendicular to the axis is also called a cylinder (source form Wikipedia). Here we are going to learn about the calculation of surface area of the cylinder and its example problems.


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The following figure represents the cylinder,
Area of the top portion is pi r^2

Area of the bottom is pi r^2

Area of the side is 2 pi r h

Therefore surface area of the cylinder is A = 2pi r^2 + 2 pi r h

Example for Area Calculations:

Here are few examples for the calculation of surface area of a cylinder,

Example 1:

Calculate the total surface area of a cylindrical tin of radius 15 cm and height 3 cm.

Calculation:

Given, the radius of the cylinder is (r) = 15 cm

Height (h) = 3cm

We know that formula for find the surface area of the cylinder is,

A = 2pi r^2 + 2 pi r h

Here both term 2 pi r is common so take out

A= 2 pi r (r+h)

Substitute the height and radius value in the above formula

A= 2 * pi * 15 (15+3)

A = 2 * 3.14 *15 (18)

A = 94.2 *18

A= 1695.6

Therefore the total surface area of the cylindrical tin is 1695.6 cm^2

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Area Calculations:

Find the surface area of the cylinder the diameter of the base is 12 cm and the height is 8 cm.

Calculation:

Here the given data is the diameter, so we have to find the radius for area calculation,

Radius = (diameter / 2)

Therefore (12/2) = 6 cm

Now we calculate the surface area of the cylinder,

A= 2 pi r (r+h)

r = 6 cm

h= 8cm

Substitute the above formula,

A = 2 * 3.14 *6 (6+8)

A= 37.68 * 14

A=527.52

Therefore the total surface area of the cylinder is 527.52 cm^2

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