Volume of a tetrahedron
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Find the volume of a tetrahedron with height h and base area B.
Hint: B=(ab/2)sin(theta) Also, please see the attached document for the provided diagram of the tetrahedron.
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Volume of a Tetrahedron
To work out the volume of the tetrahedron, imagine slicing the pyramid up into a stack of triangles, each of thickness dx (a small quantity). The bottom triangle has sides of length a and b and thickness and then they steadily get smaller as they reach the top. By finding the volume of each of these shapes and adding them up, we will get the volume ...
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