How to find surface area

How to find surface area

Repair, moving, painting of an object – all this will demand calculation of the area. Not a sin to remember the school program.

Instruction

1. Let's remember, what is area. The area is a measure of a flat figure in relation to a standard figure. Or the positive size which numerical value has the following properties: • If the figure can be broken into parts which will be simple figures, then the area of such figure will be equal to the sum of the areas of its parts • The area of a square with the party which is equal to unit of measure is equal to unit • Equal figures possess equal ploshchadyamiiz these rules follows that the area is not concrete size, that is the area gives only conditional characteristic to any figure. When it is necessary to find the area of any figure, it is necessary to calculate how many squares with the party (which equals to unit), this figure in itself can contain.

2. Example: Let's take a figure – a rectangle, such in which the square centimeter keeps within six times. Then the area of such rectangle will equal – 6 cm2. If to take more difficult figure, for example, a trapeze, then it will turn out that: If the trapeze of such size that the square centimeter keeps within it only two times, and the third part does not get entirely and there is a small triangle. To measure the area of this remained triangle it is necessary to apply to it shares of square centimeter, it is possible to take millimeter. However, this way for difficult figures not really convenient. Therefore for calculation of the area of different figures there are various formulas. If it is necessary to calculate the area of a concrete figure, then it is possible to take the textbook on geometry and to remember material which was once passed in school. So, formula of the area of a cube: the area of a cube is equal to number of sides a2 increased by the area of a side, i.e. 6 *

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


Print