Conical Frustum -- from Wolfram MathWorld Page 1 of 2

A conical frustum is a frustum created by slicing the top off a cone (with the cut made parallel to the base).
For a right circular cone, let be the slant height and and the base and top radii. Then

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The surface area, not including the top and bottom circles, is

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The volume of the frustum is given by

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But

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so

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This formula can be generalized to any pyramid by letting be the base areas of the top and bottom of the
frustum. Then the volume can be written as

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The area-weighted integral of over the frustum is

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so the geometric centroid is located along the z-axis at a height

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