What is the volume V of a cube with side a? What is the area S of the surface of a rectangular
What is the volume V of a cube with side a? What is the area S of the surface of a rectangular parallelepiped if its dimensions are equal to a, b, c?
1. The volume of a cube with side a is determined by raising side a to the 3rd degree:
V = a ^ 3.
2. All parallel sides of the parallelepiped are equal, and there are only 12 edges in 3 dimensions. The total surface area of a rectangular parallelepiped consists of the sum of the areas of all faces, which in turn are rectangles. The area of any rectangle is equal to the product of its two adjacent sides. There are 6 faces in total, each face has a “pair”, that is, only 3 pairs of rectangles with different sides. So the area is equal to the sum of all different-sized faces, multiplied by 2:
S total = 2 * (a * b + b * c + c * a).