The Third Dimension
Up until now, we've explored the world in two dimensions. Area, shapes, and x-y plots are all good and fine, but they're a little flat, aren't they? After all, you can't really play Minecraft in tw...
Surface Area
Nets aren't that hard. By now, you've probably got them. Or maybe they've got you. Either way, it gets a little tedious to have to draw them over and over again. There must be a better way to find...
Volume
We know you're tired of surface area. You should be. We've been harping on it for the past four chapters, but we've only scraped the surface (area?) of the third dimension.We took a look at 3D...
Congruent and Similar Solids
By now, we've earned quite a bit of street cred working with surface area and volumes. You could throw us any shape and we'd give you its surface area, volume, and even its pants size.What we need...
The 3D Coordinate System
Two-dimensional shapes have an x-y plane to go home to at the end of the day, and what do the solids have? Nothing. Three-dimensional shapes have been homeless for such a long time, they've begun t...