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Spherical Cone


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The surface of revolution obtained by cutting a conical "wedge" with vertex at the center of a sphere out of the sphere. It is therefore a cone plus a spherical cap, and is a degenerate case of a spherical sector. The volume of the spherical cone is

 V=2/3piR^2h
(1)

(Kern and Bland 1948, p. 104). The surface area of a closed spherical sector is

 S=piR(2h+r),
(2)

and the geometric centroid is located at a height

 z^_=3/8(2R-h)
(3)

above the sphere's center (Harris and Stocker 1998).

The inertia tensor of a uniform spherical cone of mass M is given by

 I=[1/(10)M(h^2-3Rh+6R^2) 0 0; 0 1/(10)M(h^2-3Rh+6R^2) 0; 0 0 1/5Mh(3R-h)].
(4)

The degenerate case of r=h=R gives a hemisphere with circular base, yielding

S=3piR^2
(5)
V=2/3piR^3
(6)

as expected.


See also

Cone, Hemisphere, Sphere, Spherical Cap, Spherical Sector

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References

Harris, J. W. and Stocker, H. "Spherical Sector." §4.8.3 in Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 106-107, 1998.Kern, W. F. and Bland, J. R. "Spherical Sector." §37 in Solid Mensuration with Proofs, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, pp. 103-106, 1948.

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