Cross Sections What you see when you slice

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Cross Sections What you see when you slice.

Cross Sections What you see when you slice.

What is a Cross Section? A cross section is the two-dimensional figure that results

What is a Cross Section? A cross section is the two-dimensional figure that results when a plane intersects with a three-dimensional figure.

Cross Section Another way of saying it: a cross section is the shape you

Cross Section Another way of saying it: a cross section is the shape you see on the inside when you slice off a piece of a figure. Cutting an orange in half is a good example. When you slice the orange in half and then look at the new face you just made, what is its shape? A circle.

Cross Sections all Around Examples when of Cross Sections: you cut your birthday cake

Cross Sections all Around Examples when of Cross Sections: you cut your birthday cake every loaf of sliced bread a floor plan of a house Diagrams in science books MRI images maps

Cross Sections of a Cylinder parallel to base cross-section: slanted cross-section: perpendicular to base

Cross Sections of a Cylinder parallel to base cross-section: slanted cross-section: perpendicular to base cross-section: ELLIPSE/OVAL CIRCLE RECTANGLE

Cross Section of Cone parallel to base cross-section: CIRCLE perpendicular to base cross-section: TRIANGLE

Cross Section of Cone parallel to base cross-section: CIRCLE perpendicular to base cross-section: TRIANGLE slanted cross-section: ELLIPSE/OVAL

Cross Section of a Sphere always a CIRCLE!

Cross Section of a Sphere always a CIRCLE!

Cross Section of a Triangular Prism it depends on the orientation … a TRIANGLE

Cross Section of a Triangular Prism it depends on the orientation … a TRIANGLE or a RECTANGLE

Miscellaneous Cross Sections

Miscellaneous Cross Sections

Quiz Yourself! Click on the Math. Bits. Notebook image and answer questions 1 –

Quiz Yourself! Click on the Math. Bits. Notebook image and answer questions 1 – 9 to quiz yourself. Think outside of the box!!