Volume of pyramids intuition | Solid geometry | High school geometry | Khan Academy

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    The volume of a pyramid is a fraction of the volume of the rectangular prism that encloses it. We can find out what that fraction is by cutting a prism into several pyramids.
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Komentáře • 44

  • @LimitlessMathLLC
    @LimitlessMathLLC Před 4 lety +17

    Always great content! I love that you are explaining the WHY!!! I’ve always been inspired by your channel. I’ve admired your videos for many years and finally got the courage to start my own math channel.

  • @SerenitySong6
    @SerenitySong6 Před rokem +2

    This is the easiest explanation I've seen, doesn't deal with series and all that crap. Thanks!

  • @amandad422
    @amandad422 Před 4 lety +6

    Love this channel.Doing Geometry in class currently,I'm getting MOST of it,but the videos You have REALLY help a lot.Thank You so much.

  • @Scott_G
    @Scott_G Před 4 lety +4

    These are so great. I wish Sal was making videos back when I was in school.

  • @saksham1919
    @saksham1919 Před 4 lety +4

    Even when i am taking precalc, calc, etc. you can still teach a dog some new tricks. Thank you so much for these videos. Keep it up

  • @yiyingteo
    @yiyingteo Před 4 lety +4

    Thank you for answering the WHY
    Great content! Love it!
    Would like to see another episode explaining abt the volume of a cone

  • @youareloved6778
    @youareloved6778 Před 4 lety +3

    Thankyou for these Math concepts! I’m really understanding!

  • @ukaszszczur5696
    @ukaszszczur5696 Před 3 lety +4

    How do you know that the left, right, front and back pyramids have also k in their equations?
    How do you know that these constants of proportionality are equal?

    • @haimanotmengistu9793
      @haimanotmengistu9793 Před 2 lety

      The constant is the same for all pyramids since we are using it as part of the formula and not as a constant for that specific prism out of which it was cut

    • @ghxst.5128
      @ghxst.5128 Před 2 lety

      he uses the same argument as he did for the original pyrimid that he wanted to find the volum of

  • @usualavantgasp
    @usualavantgasp Před 4 lety +1

    It is fascinating to know how neat je draw each pyramid sketch using DIGITAL PEN

  • @vasilymorozov
    @vasilymorozov Před 4 lety +3

    Really happy to see another video from khan academy about math. I actually have a video on my channel about word problems using volume!

  • @anishprasai9398
    @anishprasai9398 Před 3 lety +1

    Love❤ from Nepal🇳🇵
    Grateful for your videos 😃

  • @070279381
    @070279381 Před 3 lety +2

    this is with assumption the constant is the same k for each cases.

  • @philipmcclure6493
    @philipmcclure6493 Před 4 lety +4

    I have a question. Why is the constant K the same between the different colored pyramids? Wouldn’t each pyramid have a different constant K?

    • @SoumilSahu
      @SoumilSahu Před 4 lety +2

      Think of it this way: the area of a circle is pi*r^2. The size of the circle is irrelevant. The area depends on just r and the pi sitting out front stays unchanged.
      Similarly, the volume of the pyramid just depends on ITS x, y and z

    • @070279381
      @070279381 Před 3 lety +1

      @@SoumilSahu doesn't mean we can assume the constant will be the same. it can be kxyz + mxyz + nxyz= xyz
      it just assumption from Sal to make k = m = n

  • @thesardaunatv
    @thesardaunatv Před 4 lety +2

    Amazing video my mentor
    I am following your footsteps
    And I need your blessing to prosper

  • @santiagocos4769
    @santiagocos4769 Před 2 lety

    Gorgeous.

  • @jadonjung5074
    @jadonjung5074 Před 2 lety

    I was confused about how to get the volume of pyramids but your video helped me @Khan Academy

  • @sarbjeetsingh1111
    @sarbjeetsingh1111 Před 4 lety

    Wonderful.

  • @jasoncampbell1464
    @jasoncampbell1464 Před rokem

    It's a bit funny how other commenters are so satisfied with the explanation and find it easy. From my perspective this is really clever and unobvious. It's not intuitive at all that you should make the assumption that the ratio k between the volume of the pyramid and the box that contains it will be the same for every pyramid. And even with that assumption it's not easy to foresee the usefulness, in finding a general formula, of expressing the volume of a box of arbitrary dimensions in terms of the 6 pyramids. You would need the intuition that the pyramids, despite differing dimensions, have the same volume. That's not obvious at all.
    At the end of the video I still don't see the grounds for making that assumption except to try it out and see that it works, coincidentally. Finding the formula itself is easy with calculus but it's helpful to develop these geometric intuitions
    edit: I think I understand why someone would find this assumption useful now. Fundamentally the assumption is that the volume of the pyramid is *linearly proportional* to the volume of box that contains it. So if you've done enough algebra, you'll know that expressing the volume of the box as a sum of the volumes of pyramids will yield a linear equation in which x,y,z will cancel out and you can solve for the constant of proportionality. It's more of anticipating a linear equation where x,y,z cancel than having the intuition that the inner pyramids have the same volume (it's impossible to tell that a-priori). That's a pretty good game plan.

  • @khalilulahnabil5574
    @khalilulahnabil5574 Před 2 lety

    excellent explanation ❤️❤️❤️

  • @MohoganyFan
    @MohoganyFan Před 4 lety +3

    I have no idea why I am watching this...perhaps I'll use it in the future

  • @georgeorourke7156
    @georgeorourke7156 Před 9 měsíci

    Very elegant presentation but I wonder whether one doesn't need an argument to ensure that k is somehow not dependent on the dimensions of the pyramid.

  • @bluejeanswhiteshirt9481
    @bluejeanswhiteshirt9481 Před 4 lety +10

    This is how many people use khan academy because of corona
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  • @Infinitelybetter466
    @Infinitelybetter466 Před 4 lety

    Hey khan, I appreciate the video you uploaded. My question is did you drive the one-third because in an essence there are dimensions to the pyramid? So one-third times the three sides which in this you called xyz. Thanks

  • @coopshopdesigns4890
    @coopshopdesigns4890 Před 4 lety

    Thank you

  • @maxwell4546
    @maxwell4546 Před 4 lety +1

    A lovely pyramid scheme you have there.

  • @Jokeland3172
    @Jokeland3172 Před 4 lety

    Good
    😍😍😍

  • @username-yn5yo
    @username-yn5yo Před 4 lety

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    @biplobhimu Před 9 měsíci

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    @YoshaGang Před 4 lety

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  • @deshn21
    @deshn21 Před 4 lety

    Are you Khan?

  • @unknownjah6920
    @unknownjah6920 Před 3 lety

    Deleted your video

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    @duzhenfkhrodole3703 Před 4 lety

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