Questions tagged [cross-sections]

A cross section is the intersection of a body in three-dimensional space with a plane, or the analog in higher-dimensional space. Cutting an object into slices creates many parallel cross sections.

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Cross sections of randomly distributed defects

A $10 \times 10 \times 10$ mm cube has $1000000$ 2-micron spheres randomly distributed thru out it. If a random cross-section was done. What would be the area of the cross-sectioned spheres and how many portions of spheres could be counted?
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Cylindric sections

When a cylinder intersects with a plane, what are the resultant shapes and curves? I think that the curves are hyperbola, parabola and line, and the shapes are circle, ellipse, rectangle and trapezium. For shapes, we ignore 'weird' ones like the…
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What's the cross-sectional area of a grating?

This is related to the electrical concept of resistance, but in the equation of resistance $$R = \frac{ρ l}{A}$$ there's the cross-sectional area $A$ of the conductor. Now if the conductor is a grating then what's the cross-sectional area of such…
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