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What cross section results if you cut a pyramid perpendicular to its base?
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What is the perpendicular cross section of a rectangular prism?
It is a rectangle.
How Do you make a cross section of a parallelogram from a pyramid?
It depends on the pyramid. If it is a square based pyramid, a horizontal plane will give a square cross section, a plane inclined by a rotation parallel to one of the base axes will give a rectangular cross section whereas a plane inclined by rotation along both basal axes will result in a parallelogram cross section. Not sure how you get a parallelogram from a pentagonal or hexagonal (etc) pyramid.
What is the name of a 2d square based pyramid?
A 2D representation of a square-based pyramid is called a square pyramid net or a square pyramid template.
What is the horizontal cross section of a rectangular pryamid?
The horizontal cross section of a rectangular pyramid is a rectangle.
What would the cross section of a square pyramid be?
Depending on the inclination of the plane used for the cross-section, it could be a square, rectangle, trapezium, triangle.
Which two-dimensional figure could be a cross section of a rectangular pyramid that has been intersected by a plane perpendicular to its base and not through its vertex?
trapezoid
What is the difference between the cross section of a pyramid and the cross section of a prism?
The cross section of a pyramid shrinks from the shape of the base down to a point as you move along its axis from the base to the apex. The cross section of a prism is constant along its axis.
What is the perpendicular cross section of a rectangular prism?
It is a rectangle.
What is the cross section of a triangular pyramid?
triangle
What is a cross section of a cone?
Circle: If the knife is perpendicular to the axis of the cone.Ellipse: If the knife is between (perpendicular to the axis of the cone) and (parallel to the side of the cone).Parabola: If the knife is between (parallel to the side of the cone) and (parallel to the axis of the cone).Hyperbola: If the knife is parallel to the axis of the cone.Triangle: If the knife is perpendicular to the base of the cone.Point: If the knife is parallel to the base the cone and through the apex
If you slice a rectangular pyramid perpendicular to the base but NOT through the apex what will be the shape of the cross section?
It will be one of:a triangle if where the cross section cuts the base is through two adjacent sides;an irregular quadrilateral if where the cross section cuts the base is through two opposite sides but not parallel to a side of the base; ora trapezium if where the is the cross section cuts the base is parallel to a side of the base.
How Do you make a cross section of a parallelogram from a pyramid?
It depends on the pyramid. If it is a square based pyramid, a horizontal plane will give a square cross section, a plane inclined by a rotation parallel to one of the base axes will give a rectangular cross section whereas a plane inclined by rotation along both basal axes will result in a parallelogram cross section. Not sure how you get a parallelogram from a pentagonal or hexagonal (etc) pyramid.
What is the vertical cross section of a rectangular pyramid?
triangle
What is the name of a 2d square based pyramid?
A 2D representation of a square-based pyramid is called a square pyramid net or a square pyramid template.
What describes all cross sections of a square pyramid where the intersecting plane is perpendicular cut to base?
A trapezium, except that when it goes through the apex, it becomes a triangle. If the pyramid is a right pyramid, then the cross sections will be isosceles.
What is the horizontal cross section of a rectangular pryamid?
The horizontal cross section of a rectangular pyramid is a rectangle.
Identify horizontal cross section of a square pyramid?
a square
