Course Name Solid Mensuration Course Description Number of Units For Lecture and Laboratory Number of Contact Hours Per Week Prerequisite
Course Name Solid Mensuration Course Description Number of Units For Lecture and Laboratory Number of Contact Hours Per Week Prerequisite
Concept of Lines and planes; Cavalieri’s and Volume theorems; formulas for areas of plane figures,
Course Description volumes for solids; volumes and surfaces areas for spheres, pyramids, and cones; zone, sector and
segment of a sphere; theorems of Pappus.
Number of Units for 2 units lecture
Lecture and Laboratory
Number of Contact Hours per 2 hours lecture
week
Prerequisite College Algebra, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry
After completing this course, the student must be able to:
1. Compute for the area of plane figures;
2. Compute for the surface areas and volumes of different types of solids;
Course Objectives 3. Determine the volumes and surface areas of solids using other methods such as the
theorems of Pappus.
1. Plane Figures
1.1 Mensuration of plane Figures
2. Lines and Planes in Space
2.1 Typical Proofs of Solid Geometry
2.2 Angles
3. Solids for which V = Bh
3.1 Solid Sections
3.2 Cubes
3.3 Rectangular Parallelopiped
3.4 Cavalieri’s Theorem
3.5 Volume Theorem
3.6 Prism
Course Outline 3.7 Cylindrical Surface
3.8 Cylinder (Circular and Right Circular)
4. Solids for which V = 1/3 Bh
4.1 Pyramids
4.2 Similar Figures
4.3 Cones
4.4 Frustum of Regular Pyramid
4.5 Frustum of Right Circular Cone
5. Sphere
5.1 Surface Area and Volume
5.2 Zone
5.3 Segment
5.4 Sector
6. Theorems of Pappus
Laboratory Equipment None