Cylinder

Cylinder Facts
Notice these interesting things:

It has a flat base and a

flat top

The base is the same as

the top, and also in-between

It has one curved side

It is not a polyhedron as it
has a curved surface

An object shaped like a cylinder is said to be cylindrical.

Surface Area of a Cylinder

Surface Area = 2 r (r+h)
Which is made up of:

Surface Area of One End = r2

Surface Area of Side = 2 r h

Example: h = 7 and r = 2
Surface Area = 2 r (r+h)
= 2 2 (2+7)
=229
= 36
113.097

Volume of a Cylinder
Volume = r2 h
Just multiply the area of the base by the height of the cylinder:

r2

Area of the base:

Height: h

Volume = Area Height =

r2 h

Example: h = 7 and r = 2
2
Volume = r h

= 22 7
= 28
87.96

How to remember: Volume = pizza

Imagine you just cooked a pizza.
The radius is "z", and the thickness "a" is the same everywhere ... what is the volume?
Answer: pi

zza

(we would normally write "pi" as , and z z as z2, but you get the idea!)

Volume of a Cone vs Cylinder

The volume formulas for cylinders and cones are very similar:
The volume of a cylinder is:
The volume of a cone is:

r2 h
2
1/3 r h

So a cone's volume is exactly one third ( 1/3 ) of a cylinder's volume.

In future, order your ice creams in cylinders, not cones, you get 3 times as much!

It Doesn't Have to Be Circular

Usually when we say Cylinder we mean a Circular Cylinder, but you can also
have Elliptical Cylinders, like this one:
You can even have stranger cylinders: if the cross-section is curved and is the same from
one end to the other, then it will still be a cylinder.
But the area and volume calculations will be different than above.