The volume of the truncated pyramid
To find the volume of a truncated pyramid, it is enough to remember one simple formula that includes three unknown parameters. But first, let’s remember what each word of the designated concept describes.
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Definitions and formulas
Volume (from lat. volume–”filling”) is a quantitative characteristic of the space occupied by a body or substance.
Pyramid (Ancient Greek. the word meaning “memorial cake of a conical shape”) is a polyhedron (polyhedron), in which one face is an [arbitrary] polygon (it is also its base), and all the others (they are considered lateral) are triangles with a common vertex.
Truncation also means a certain “cut-off”.
In other words, it is a part of the pyramid that is enclosed between the base and the plane parallel to it.
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The formula for calculating the volume of a truncated pyramid is as follows:
where h is the height of the “cut” pyramid,
S1 and S2– the areas of its upper and lower bases, respectively.