Solids of revolution
First and Second Year of Secondary School
 

Sphere area.

 

The sphere surface cannot be spread on a plane, for that reason the sphere area formula isn't so easy to obtain, but Archimedes proved that the sphere area is equal to the curved surface area of a cylinder with the same radius and whose height is the sphere diameter.
At the end of this unit you will find an example.

Deduce the sphere area formula using this property.


       
           
  Eduardo Barbero Corral
 
Spanish Ministry of Education. Year 2007
 
 

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