Students will investigate the relationship between surface area and volume and their application to the inner workings of real life organisms.

What is a cylinder? Find a definition, example images, and formulas for determining the volume and surface area of a cylinder if given the radius of the base and the height.

This site from the Math Forum defines both a circular cylinder and a right circular cylinder. Pictures of each are provided. Formulas are provided.

College professor Dan Bach offers a review of the calculus concepts of integrals and vectors. Examples and animated graphs are provided.