27 Jun
2011
27 Jun
'11
2:51 p.m.
One clearly states (and illustrates) that the side area of a skew circular cylinder is just s/h times the side area of an unskewed cylinder, where h is the height and s is then slant height! It goes on to claim this is true for *arbitrary* (noncircular) cylinders!
It is the supremum for arbitrary cylinders; however, no cylinders actually attain this value.
I wonder how many of these cards decorate the walls of Boeing and Lockheed.
(More worryingly, I wonder how many of these cards were used by the team designing Boeing and Lockheed. : ) Sincerely, Adam P. Goucher