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  2. Surface area - Wikipedia

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    A sphere of radius r has surface area 4πr 2.. The surface area (symbol A) of a solid object is a measure of the total area that the surface of the object occupies. [1] The mathematical definition of surface area in the presence of curved surfaces is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length of one-dimensional curves, or of the surface area for polyhedra (i.e., objects with ...

  3. Area - Wikipedia

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    The area of this rectangle is lw. The most basic area formula is the formula for the area of a rectangle. Given a rectangle with length l and width w, the formula for the area is: [2] A = lw (rectangle). That is, the area of the rectangle is the length multiplied by the width.

  4. Specific surface area - Wikipedia

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    Scratches, represented by triangular-shaped grooves, make the surface area greater. Specific surface area (SSA) is a property of solids defined as the total surface area (SA) of a material per unit mass, [1] (with units of m 2 /kg or m 2 /g). Alternatively, it may be defined as SA per solid or bulk volume [2] [3] (units of m 2 /m 3 or m −1).

  5. Orders of magnitude (area) - Wikipedia

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    Surface area of a Dyson sphere with a radius of 1 AU 10 24: 1 yotta square meter (m 2) 1 square terametre (Tm 2) 1.9 Tm 2: Area swept by Jupiter's orbit around the Sun 6.4 Tm 2: Area swept by Saturn's orbit around the Sun 8.5 Tm 2: Surface area of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse: 10 25 24 Tm 2: Surface area of the hypergiant star VY Canis ...

  6. Solid angle - Wikipedia

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    The external surface area A of the cap equals r2 only if solid angle of the cone is exactly 1 steradian. Hence, in this figure θ = A /2 and r = 1 . The solid angle of a cone with its apex at the apex of the solid angle, and with apex angle 2 θ , is the area of a spherical cap on a unit sphere

  7. Surface-area-to-volume ratio - Wikipedia

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    Graphs of surface area, A against volume, V of the Platonic solids and a sphere, showing that the surface area decreases for rounder shapes, and the surface-area-to-volume ratio decreases with increasing volume. Their intercepts with the dashed lines show that when the volume increases 8 (2³) times, the surface area increases 4 (2²) times.

  8. Parallelepiped - Wikipedia

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    The surface area of a parallelepiped is the sum of the areas of the bounding parallelograms: ... (also called a rectangular parallelepiped, ...

  9. Rectangle - Wikipedia

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    In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a rectilinear convex polygon or a quadrilateral with four right angles. It can also be defined as: an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that all of its angles are equal (360°/4 = 90°); or a parallelogram containing a right angle. A rectangle with four sides of equal length is a square.