How Do You Calculate The Surface Area Of A Prism?
“Hi, I’m Steve Jones and I’m going to explain how to calculate the surface area of a prism. Now first of all we have to understand what a prism is. A prism is a shape, a solid shape, which has the same cross sectional shape throughout. As you can see here, this is a rectangular prism, and throughout the rectangle you can see we’ve got the same shape all the way through. It is rectangular all the way through. So if I cut it at any point, I will get the same shape. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s this shape, which is a cylinder, which is a cylindrical prism, or this shape which is slightly distorted but still, it is a prism because it’s the same shape when you cut it all the way through. And the same here. So if I want to calculate the surface area of this object, I have to break it down into stages, and I have to first of all look at the different surfaces and how many are there. Well on this, there is a top, a bottom, and four sides. So in this case there are six surfaces. So when I
