This is a prototype of JavaSketchpad, a World-Wide-Web component of The Geometer's Sketchpad. Copyright ©1990-1998 by Key Curriculum Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Portions of this work were funded by the National Science Foundation (awards DMI 9561674 & 9623018).

How To Decompose a Parallelepiped into Six Tetrahedrons

by John Hebron, SFU, February 2000

This is a geometrical demonstration of where the factor of 1/6 comes from in the solution of Math 232 Homework Assignment #06, Section 4.1 #44. For the rest of the volume calculation see the posted Maple component of the solutions to Assignment #06.

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You may drag any of the labeled points C, D, E, F, or "Drag".


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Revised 28 February 2000 by John Hebron.