Solid geometry, stereometry

Solid geometry is the name for the geometry of three-dimensional Euclidean space.

Stereometry deals with the measurements of volumes of various solid figures (three-dimensional figures) including pyramids, prisms and other polyhedrons; cylinders; cones; truncated cones; and balls bounded by spheres.

  1. Two balls
    balls-inside-cylinder Two balls, one 8cm in radius and the other 6cm in radius, are placed in a cylindrical plastic container 10cm in radius. Find the volume of water necessary to cover them.
  2. Cardboard box
    krabicka We want to make a cardboard box shaped quadrangular prism with rhombic base. Rhombus has a side of 5 cm and 8 cm one diagonal long. The height of the box to be 12 cm. The box will be open at the top. How many square centimeters cardboard we need, if we cal
  3. Box
    Rhombic_prism Cardboard box shaped quadrangular prism with a rhombic base. Rhombus has a side 5 cm and one diagonal 8 cm long and height of the box is 12 cm. The box will open at the top. How many cm2 of cardboard we need to cover overlap and joints that are 5% of ar
  4. Cone and the ratio
    kuzel Rotational cone has a height 23 cm and the ratio of the base surface to lateral surface is 7: 9. Calculate a surface of the base and the lateral surface.
  5. Block
    brick_lego Calculate the volume of a cuboid ABCDEFGH if |AB| = 16 cm, |BC| = 19 cm and the angle ∠CDG = 36.9°
  6. Vector
    some_vector Calculate length of the vector v⃗ = (9.75, 6.75, -6.5, -3.75, 2).
  7. Hexagonal prism
    hexa_prism The base of the prism is a regular hexagon consisting of six triangles with side a = 12 cm and height va = 10.4 cm. The prism height is 5 cm. Calculate the volume and surface of the prism!
  8. Mystery of stereometrie
    Tetrahedron Two regular tetrahedrons have surfaces 88 cm2 and 198 cm2. In what ratio is their volumes? Write as a fraction and as a decimal rounded to 4 decimal places.
  9. Sphere and cone
    cone_in_sphere Within the sphere of radius G = 33 cm inscribe cone with largest volume. What is that volume and what are the dimensions of the cone?
  10. Pit
    truncated_pyramid Pit has shape of a truncated pyramid with rectangular bases and is 0.8 m deep. The length and width of the pit is the top 3 × 1.5 m bottom 1 m × 0.5 m. To paint one square meter of pit we use 0.6 l of green colour. How many liters of paint is needed when w
  11. Lid
    drywell What is the weight of concrete cover (lid) to round shape well with a diameter 1.8 m, if the thickness of the cover is 11 cm? 1 m3 of concrete weighs 2190 kg.
  12. Elevation
    horizon_diagram What must be the elevation of an observer in order that he may be able to see an object on the earth 536 km away? Assume the earth to be a smooth sphere with radius 6378.1 km.
  13. Glass of juice
    glass_of_juice Glass of juice shaped cylinder 16 cm height and base diameter of 7 cm is filled with juice so that the level is 4 cm below the rim of the glass. Determine the maximum angle of the cup can be tilted and juice don't overflow.
  14. Triangular prism
    hranol_3sides The base perpendicular triangular prism is a right triangle whose hypotenuse measures 5 cm and one cathetus 2 cm. Height of the prism is equal to 7/9 of the perimeter of the base. Calculate the surface area of prism.
  15. Triangular prism
    hranol_3bokovy Calculate the surface area and volume of a triangular prism, base right triangle if a = 3 cm, b = 4 cm, c = 5 cm and height of prism h=12 cm.
  16. Box
    uhlopriecka Calculate the angle between box base 9 x 14 and body diagonal length 18.
  17. Tank
    barrel_1 In the middle of a cylindrical tank with a bottom diameter 251 cm is standing rod which is 13 cm above the water surface. If we bank rod its end reach surface of the water just by the tank wall. How deep is the tank?
  18. Triangular prism
    hranol_3 Base of perpendicular triangular prism is a right triangle with leg length 5 cm. Content area of the largest side wall of its surface is 130 cm² and the height of the body is 10 cm. Calculate its volume.
  19. Axial section
    obr0 Axial section of the cylinder has a diagonal 40 cm. The size of the shell and the base surface are in the ratio 3:2. Calculate the volume and surface area of this cylinder.
  20. Felix
    astronaut Calculate how much land saw Felix Baumgartner after jump from 32 km above ground. The radius of the Earth is R = 6378 km.

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