Mathematics

Grade 9
Topic: Solids
Week 1: January 4, 2021 to January 8, 2021

A solid is defined as anything that occupies space. As in the case of plane figures,
a solid has both a length and a breadth. However, it also has a thickness (or height
or depth). Thus a solid is three dimensional.

Most solids are irregular in shape, however there are also solids which are regular
in shape such as a cube, cuboid, sphere, cone, cylinder and triangular prism.
A polyhedron is a solid shape with flat sides where the flat sides are all polygons.

A prism is a polyhedron having the same end or cross-section throughout its

length.

A pyramid is a polyhedron with a base in the shape of a polygon, and the other
faces are triangles with a common vertex called the apex.

Faces, Edges and Vertices

Solids are bounded by surfaces called faces. These surfaces can be flat or curved.

Surfaces are bounded by lines and intersect at lines. These lines are either straight
or curved. When two surfaces intersect they meet at an edge.

Lines intersect at points. The meeting place of two edges is called a point or
vertex.