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Hi there, I am an art student and in the process of making a cone out of sheet metal. I am unable to work out the
template I need to produce my final cone. The dimensions I have are that the final cone will be 58mm high and
will have a diameter of 102mm. Can you help?
Thanks, Laura
Hi Laura,
|PQ| = 58 mm and |QR| = 51 mm and the triangle PQR is a right triangle so be Pythagoras Theorem
so
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Thus when you cone is rolled out flat it is a sector of a circle of radius 77.23 mm.
The length of the arc RS is the circumference of the circle at the base of your cone. This is a circle of radius 51
mm and the circumference of a circle of radius r is given by
All that remains is to determine the measure of the angle RPS. The relationship between the length of the arc of
a sector of a circle, the radius of the circle and the angle at the center is
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so
180
4.15 / = 237.7o
Hence you need to draw a circle of radius 77.23 mm, cut out a sector with centre angle 360o - 237.7o = 22.3o .
What remains is your template.
Penny
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