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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

10.6 Volume of a Spheres

I did another experiment similar to the cone/cylinder experiment.
But this time I used a hemisphere. I asked students how many hemispheres would fill a cylinder with height 2*pi. Then from this we worked out that the volume of a sphere is (4/3)*pi*r^3.
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