Question

Consider the vitamin capsule below.

Answer 1

Answer:

We have a cylinder and two semispheres.

The volume of a cylinder is equal to:

Vc =h*pi*r^2

where h is the height, r is the radius, and pi = 3.14

We know that the diameter is d = 8.4 mm, and the radius is half of that:

r = 8.4mm/2 = 4.2mm

Then the volume of the cylinder is:

Vc = 15.2mm*3.14*(4.2mm)^2 = 841.9 mm^3

The volume of a sphere is:

Vs = (3/4)*pi*r^3

The radius of the sphere is the same as the radius of the cylinder, and for a semisphere, we have half of the volume written above,

Vss = (3/8)*3.14*(4.2mm)^2 = 87.2mm^3

and we have two of those, so the total volume is:

Vt = 841.9 mm^3 + 2*87.2mm^3 = 1016.3 mm^3

The surface area of the figure is equal to the curved surface of the cylinder plus the surface of the two semispheres.

The curved surface of the cylinder is:

Sc = 2*pi*r*h = 2*3.14*4.2mm*15.2mm  = 400.9 mm^2

The surface of a sphere is:

Ss = 4*pi*r^2

and for each semisphere, we can find the surface by dividing the previous equation by two, but we have two semispheres, so we can jump a step and think the two semispheres as only one sphere.

Ss = 4*3.14*(4.2mm)^2 = 221.6mm^2

The total surface is St = 221.6mm^2 + 400.9 mm^2 = 622.5 mm^2