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OF A CONE-SIMPLE DERIVATION
without using calculus
SRINIVASAN NENMELI
Introdcution
This article is an easy tutorial for middle and high
school students to arrive at the formula for
"volume of a right circular cone " V = (1/3) r2 h
where r is the radius and h, the height
without using the method of calculus of integration.
I am presenting a simple "numerical method" or numerical
approximation to get this formula.
By following this method, you will also learn about
numerical approach to such problems ,under the title
"numerical analysis." This method can be easily extended
for volume of a square pyramid and volume of a rerular
tetrahedron and other geometric figures.
The Approach
Consider a cone placed on a table with flat
follows:
r, 0.9r, 0.8 r ------0.1r
h'= h/10
Then the volume of the cone:
V = (pi) (h/10)r2 [1 + 0.9x0.9 + 0.8 x 0.8 +
..........0.1 x0.1] -------------------(1)
If we do the simple computation involved for the
terms inside the brackets , we get:
V = (h/10) r2 [3.85]
= 0.385 r2 h ------------(2)
Note that V= 0.3333 r2 h -----------(3)
Our result is pretty close to the expected
formula, but not close enough.
Method 2
One 'obvious'technique to improve the accuracy
of the result would be to increase the number of
discs from 10 to 20 ; then each disc would be of
height h/20 and the error in calculating the