Tag: wolframalpha

 
var rad:Number = 1;

var surfaceArea:Number = sphereSurfaceArea(rad);
var volume:Number = sphereVolume(rad)
trace("surface area: ", surfaceArea);
trace("volume:", volume);
trace("volume / surface area:", volume / surfaceArea);

function sphereSurfaceArea(r:Number):Number{
	return 4 * Math.PI * r * r;
}

function sphereVolume(r:Number):Number{
	return r * r * r * (4.0/3.0) * Math.PI;
}

/*outputs:
surface area:  12.566370614359172
volume: 4.1887902047863905
volume / surface area: 0.3333333333333333
*/

Last night I was feeling curious about sphere volume and sphere surface area… I used WolframAlpha to find the neccessary equations and then wrote the above code snippet…

Check out how WolframAlpha does it:
surface area of a sphere
surface area of a sphere with radius 10
sphere volume
sphere volume with radius 10