Cone

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In geometry, a cone is a three-dimensional figure that tapers smoothly from a flat base (typically a circle) to a point not contained in the base, called the apex or vertex.

A cone is formed by a set of , half-lines, or lines connecting a common point, the apex, to all of the points on a base. In the case of line segments, the cone does not extend beyond the base, while in the case of half-lines, it extends infinitely far. In the case of lines, the cone extends infinitely far in both directions from the apex, in which case it is sometimes called a double cone. Each of the two halves of a double cone split at the apex is called a nappe.

Depending on the author, the base may be restricted to a circle, any one-dimensional quadratic form in the plane, any closed one-dimensional figure, or any of the above plus all the enclosed points. If the enclosed points are included in the base, the cone is a solid geometry; otherwise it is an open surface, a two-dimensional object in three-dimensional space. In the case of a solid object, the boundary formed by these lines or partial lines is called the lateral surface; if the lateral surface is Unbounded set, it is a conical surface.

The axis of a cone is the straight line passing through the apex about which the cone has a circular symmetry. In common usage in elementary geometry, cones are assumed to be right circular, i.e., with a circle base perpendicular to the axis.

If the cone is right circular the intersection of a plane with the lateral surface is a conic section. In general, however, the base may be any shapeGrünbaum, Convex Polytopes, second edition, p. 23. and the apex may lie anywhere (though it is usually assumed that the base is bounded and therefore has finite area, and that the apex lies outside the plane of the base). Contrasted with right cones are oblique cones, in which the axis passes through the centre of the base non-perpendicularly.

Depending on context, cone may refer more narrowly to either a convex cone or projective cone. Cones can be generalized to higher dimensions.

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Further terminology The perimeter of the base of a cone is called the directrix, and each of the line segments between the directrix and apex is a generatrix or generating line of the lateral surface. (For the connection between this sense of the term directrix and the directrix of a conic section, see Dandelin spheres.)

The base radius of a circular cone is the radius of its base; often this is simply called the radius of the cone. The aperture of a right circular cone is the maximum angle between two generatrix lines; if the generatrix makes an angle θ to the axis, the aperture is 2 θ. In optics, the angle θ is called the half-angle of the cone, to distinguish it from the aperture.

A cone with a region including its apex cut off by a plane is called a truncated cone; if the truncation plane is parallel to the cone's base, it is called a frustum. An elliptical cone is a cone with an ellipse base. A generalized cone is the surface created by the set of lines passing through a vertex and every point on a boundary (see Visual hull).

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Measurements and equations

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Volume that the volume of a cone is a third of a cylinder of equal diameter and height

A cone and a cylinder have and

The volume ratio is maintained when the height is scaled to

Decompose it into thin slices.

Using Cavalieri's principle, reshape each slice into a square of the same area.

The pyramid is replicated twice.

Combining them into a cube shows that the volume ratio is 1:3.

]] The volume $V$ of any conic solid is one third of the product of the area of the base $A\_B$ and the height $h$

(2014). 9781285965901, Cengage. . ISBN 9781285965901

$$V\; =\; \backslash frac\{1\}\{3\}A\_B\; h.$$

In modern mathematics, this formula can easily be computed using calculus — if $A\_B\; =\; k\; \backslash cdot\; h$, where $k$ is a coefficient, the integral

$$\backslash int\_0^\{h\}\; k\; x^2\; \backslash ,\; dx\; =\; \backslash tfrac\{1\}\{3\}\; k\; h^3$$

Without using calculus, the formula can be proven by comparing the cone to a pyramid and applying Cavalieri's principle – specifically, comparing the cone to a (vertically scaled) right square pyramid, which forms one third of a cube. This formula cannot be proven without using such infinitesimal arguments – unlike the 2-dimensional formulae for polyhedral area, though similar to the area of the circle – and hence admitted less rigorous proofs before the advent of calculus, with the ancient Greeks using the method of exhaustion. This is essentially the content of Hilbert's third problem – more precisely, not all polyhedral pyramids are scissors congruent (can be cut apart into finite pieces and rearranged into the other), and thus volume cannot be computed purely by using a decomposition argument.

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Center of mass The center of mass of a conic solid of uniform density lies one-quarter of the way from the center of the base to the vertex, on the straight line joining the two.

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Right circular cone

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Volume For a circular cone with radius $r$ and height $h$, the base is a circle of area $\backslash pi\; r^2$ thus the formula for volume is:

(2026). 9781931914598, Springer. . ISBN 9781931914598

$$V\; =\; \backslash frac\{1\}\{3\}\; \backslash pi\; r^2\; h$$

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Slant height The Slant height of a right circular cone is the distance from any point on the circle of its base to the apex via a line segment along the surface of the cone. It is given by $\backslash sqrt\{r^2+h^2\}$, where $r$ is the radius of the base and $h$ is the height. This can be proved by the Pythagorean theorem.

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Surface area The lateral surface area of a right circular cone is $LSA\; =\; \backslash pi\; r\; \backslash ell$ where $r$ is the radius of the circle at the bottom of the cone and $\backslash ell$ is the slant height of the cone. The surface area of the bottom circle of a cone is the same as for any circle, $\backslash pi\; r^2$. Thus, the total surface area of a right circular cone can be expressed as each of the following:

• Radius and height

:$\backslash pi\; r^2+\backslash pi\; r\; \backslash sqrt\{r^2+h^2\}$

(the area of the base plus the area of the lateral surface; the term $\backslash sqrt\{r^2+h^2\}$ is the slant height)

:$\backslash pi\; r\; \backslash left(r\; +\; \backslash sqrt\{r^2+h^2\}\backslash right)$

where $r$ is the radius and $h$ is the height.

• Radius and slant height

:$\backslash pi\; r^2+\backslash pi\; r\; \backslash ell$

:$\backslash pi\; r(r+\backslash ell)$

where $r$ is the radius and $\backslash ell$ is the slant height.

• Circumference and slant height

:$\backslash frac\; \{c^2\}\; \{4\; \backslash pi\}\; +\; \backslash frac\; \{c\backslash ell\}\; 2$

:$\backslash left(\backslash frac\; c\; 2\backslash right)\backslash left(\backslash frac\; c\; \{2\backslash pi\}\; +\; \backslash ell\backslash right)$

where $c$ is the circumference and $\backslash ell$ is the slant height.

• Apex angle and height

:$\backslash pi\; h^2\; \backslash tan\; \backslash frac\{\backslash theta\}\{2\}\; \backslash left(\backslash tan\; \backslash frac\{\backslash theta\}\{2\}\; +\; \backslash sec\; \backslash frac\{\backslash theta\}\{2\}\backslash right)$

:$-\backslash frac\{\backslash pi\; h^2\; \backslash sin\; \backslash frac\{\backslash theta\}\{2\}\}\{\backslash sin\; \backslash frac\{\backslash theta\}\{2\}-1\}$

where $\backslash theta$ is the apex angle and $h$ is the height.

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Circular sector

The circular sector is obtained by unfolding the surface of one nappe of the cone:

• radius R

:$R\; =\; \backslash sqrt\{r^2+h^2\}$

• arc length L

:$L\; =\; c\; =\; 2\backslash pi\; r$

• central angle φ in radians

:$\backslash varphi\; =\; \backslash frac\{L\}\{R\}\; =\; \backslash frac\{2\backslash pi\; r\}\{\backslash sqrt\{r^2+h^2\}\}$

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Equation form

The surface of a cone can be parameterized as

$f(\backslash theta,h)\; =\; (h\; \backslash cos\backslash theta,\; h\; \backslash sin\backslash theta,\; h\; ),$

where $\backslash theta\; \backslash in\; [0,2\backslash pi)$ is the angle "around" the cone, and $h\; \backslash in\; \backslash mathbb\{R\}$ is the "height" along the cone.

A right solid circular cone with height $h$ and aperture $2\backslash theta$, whose axis is the $z$ coordinate axis and whose apex is the origin, is described parametrically as

$F(s,t,u)\; =\; \backslash left(u\; \backslash tan\; s\; \backslash cos\; t,\; u\; \backslash tan\; s\; \backslash sin\; t,\; u\; \backslash right)$

where $s,t,u$ range over $0,\backslash theta)$,, respectively.

In implicit form, the same solid is defined by the inequalities

$\backslash \{\; F(x,y,z)\; \backslash leq\; 0,\; z\backslash geq\; 0,\; z\backslash leq\; h\backslash \},$

where

$F(x,y,z)\; =\; (x^2\; +\; y^2)(\backslash cos\backslash theta)^2\; -\; z^2\; (\backslash sin\; \backslash theta)^2.\backslash ,$

More generally, a right circular cone with vertex at the origin, axis parallel to the vector $d$, and aperture $2\backslash theta$, is given by the implicit vector calculus equation $F(u)\; =\; 0$ where

$F(u)\; =\; (u\; \backslash cdot\; d)^2\; -\; (d\; \backslash cdot\; d)\; (u\; \backslash cdot\; u)\; (\backslash cos\; \backslash theta)^2$

$F(u)\; =\; u\; \backslash cdot\; d\; -\; |d|\; |u|\; \backslash cos\; \backslash theta$

where $u=(x,y,z)$, and $u\; \backslash cdot\; d$ denotes the dot product.

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Projective geometry

In projective geometry, a cylinder is simply a cone whose apex is at infinity. Intuitively, if one keeps the base fixed and takes the limit as the apex goes to infinity, one obtains a cylinder, the angle of the side increasing as arctan, in the limit forming a right angle. This is useful in the definition of , which require considering the cylindrical conics.

According to G. B. Halsted, a cone is generated similarly to a Steiner conic only with a projectivity and axial pencils (not in perspective) rather than the projective ranges used for the Steiner conic:

"If two copunctual non-costraight axial pencils are projective but not perspective, the meets of correlated planes form a 'conic surface of the second order', or 'cone'."G. B. Halsted (1906) Synthetic Projective Geometry, page 20

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Generalizations

The definition of a cone may be extended to higher dimensions; see convex cone. In this case, one says that a convex set C in the real number vector space $\backslash mathbb\{R\}^n$ is a cone (with apex at the origin) if for every vector x in C and every nonnegative real number a, the vector ax is in C. In this context, the analogues of circular cones are not usually special; in fact one is often interested in polyhedral cones.

An even more general concept is the topological cone, which is defined in arbitrary topological spaces.

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See also

• Bicone
• Cone (linear algebra)
• Conic section
• Cylinder (geometry)
• Democritus
• Elliptic cone
• Generalized conic
• Hyperboloid
• List of shapes
• Pyrometric cone
• Quadric
• Rotation of axes
• Ruled surface
• Translation of axes

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Notes

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External links

• An interactive Spinning Cone from Maths Is Fun
• Paper model cone
• Lateral surface area of an oblique cone
• Cut a Cone An interactive demonstration of the intersection of a cone with a plane

Categories: Elementary Shapes, Surfaces

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