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A surface whose plane sections are all either ellipses or circles. A football approaches being an ellipsoid as does a discus.
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What are the objects that looks like a sphere?
In two dimensionscircles look like spheres. Any uniform polyhedron with a large number of sides looks something like a sphere.A sphere is a special case of an ellipsoid (where the three axes are equal), so ellipsoids can look like spheres. Another special case of ellipsoids is called a spheroid (where two axes are the same).
How do you find the volume of something that's not a rectangular prism?
There are different formulae for spheres, ellipsoids, cones and pyramids, paralellepipeds as well as some other shapes. For other shapes, including irregular shapes, the fluid displacement method may be the only option.
Why are eyes are circle?
Actually, eyes are ellipsoids because they have three dimensions.
What are some words that start with ellips?
· ellipse · ellipses · ellipsis · ellipsoid · ellipsoidal · ellipsoids
What shapes have curved faces?
Spheres, ellipsoids, paraboloids, hyperboloids, cardoids, smooth blobs.
What are the three strongest geometrice shapes?
A point, a circle and a sphere. Other candidates are ellipsoids, triangle and tetrahedra.
Formula for caculating volume?
It depends on the shape. there are different formulae for spheres, ellipsoids, cubes, cuboids, and other shapes.
What is the mathematical second name of a 3D shape with a curve?
There is no specific name. There are spheres, ellipsoids, paraboloids, etc. Then there are 3-d cycloids,
Does a dodecahedron have vertices?
Yes, any polyhedron with sides has vertices. The only three dimension objects which are not a polyhedra are spheres, spheroids, and ellipsoids.
What has a1 flat circular base and 1 curved surface?
There are many possibilities: A cone A section of a sphere, and some ellipsoids, parabolids or hyperboloids
What are the objects that looks like a sphere?
In two dimensionscircles look like spheres. Any uniform polyhedron with a large number of sides looks something like a sphere.A sphere is a special case of an ellipsoid (where the three axes are equal), so ellipsoids can look like spheres. Another special case of ellipsoids is called a spheroid (where two axes are the same).
Which shapes have fewer than two vertices?
In 2-D: circles, ellipses, smooth loops or in 3-D spheres, ellipsoids, smoothed blobs have none. A cone has only one vertex.
Why is dhurv star not round?
Wikipedia at least doesn't mention a Dhurv star; you may want to check the spelling. Some stars are believed to be ellipsoids rather than spheres, simply because they rotate very fast.
What is the area of a ellipisoid?
The area of an ellipsoid involves incomplete elliptical integrals and, if those make sense to you, you can follow up ellipsoids on Wolfram MathWorld, for example. See //mathworld.wolfram.com/Ellipsoid.html. A simpler but approximate answer, for an ellipsoid with semi-principal axes of lengths a, b and c, is as follows: the surface area, S = approx 4pi*{[(ab)^p + (bc)^p + (ca)^p)]/3}^(1/p) p = 1.6 gives a good approximation for "normal" ellipsoids. When the smallest axis is nearly of 0 length - that is, the ellipsoid is nearly flat - the area is approx 2pi*ab.
