Spherical cone
Encyclopedia
In geometry
, a spherical cone is the surface of revolution
obtained by rotating a sector of a circle about one of its straight edges.
Geometry
Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....
, a spherical cone is the surface of revolution
Surface of revolution
A surface of revolution is a surface in Euclidean space created by rotating a curve around a straight line in its plane ....
obtained by rotating a sector of a circle about one of its straight edges.
External links
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