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

Explains how to calculate the volume and surface area of a cylinder using the standard formulas. Includes example problems.

Learn how to find the volume and surface area of a cylinder by trying interactive examples. Includes definitions and links to related topics.

Use this online calculator to calculate the volume of geometric solids including a capsule, cone, frustum, cube, cylinder, hemisphere, pyramid, rectangular prism, sphere, and spherical cap.

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.

Use this interactive tool to explore prisms. Change the height and the shape of the base to see how these affect the prism. There are also several additional options, e.g., making it oblique or transparent. Properties of a prism are...

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

This CoolMath resource provides an introduction to some Precalculus formulas.