Cross Sections and Solids of Rotation Animations


Related Topics:
Common Core (Geometry)
Common Core for Mathematics

Animations to help High School students learn how to identify the shapes of two-dimensional cross-sections of three-dimensional objects, and identify three-dimensional objects generated by rotations of two-dimensional objects.




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Identify the shapes of two-dimensional cross-sections of three-dimensional objects

Sections of Cylinder

Sections of cones




Rotations of two-dimensional objects

Cone generated by revolving a right triangle

Rotating a rectangle (to obtain a cylinder)



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