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Frustum Slant Height Radii: Cone Cone

A conical frustum is a shape created by cutting off the top of a cone parallel to its base. The document provides formulas to calculate the surface area, volume, and centroid of a conical frustum based on its slant height and the radii of its top and bottom circles. These formulas can be generalized to any pyramid shape by substituting the base areas.

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Frustum Slant Height Radii: Cone Cone

A conical frustum is a shape created by cutting off the top of a cone parallel to its base. The document provides formulas to calculate the surface area, volume, and centroid of a conical frustum based on its slant height and the radii of its top and bottom circles. These formulas can be generalized to any pyramid shape by substituting the base areas.

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Conical Frustum -- from Wolfram MathWorld Page 1 of 2

A conical frustum is a frustum created by slicing the top off a cone (with the cut made parallel to the base).
For a right circular cone, let be the slant height and and the base and top radii. Then

(1)

The surface area, not including the top and bottom circles, is

(2)

(3)

The volume of the frustum is given by

(4)

But

(5)

so

(6)

(7)

(8)

This formula can be generalized to any pyramid by letting be the base areas of the top and bottom of the
frustum. Then the volume can be written as

(9)

The area-weighted integral of over the frustum is

(10)

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ConicalFrustum.html 01-Mar-12
Conical Frustum -- from Wolfram MathWorld Page 2 of 2

(11)

so the geometric centroid is located along the z-axis at a height

(12)

(13)

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ConicalFrustum.html 01-Mar-12

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