A well-known example of a prism is a cylinder and you can see from the image above that the front face (cross-section) is the same size of circle no matter where you slice it. The formula for the ...

Prisms are commonly used in spectroscopy for dispersing or controlling the direction or polarisation of light. This can be helpful for splitting the incoming light into its wavelength components to ...

The net of a 3D shape is what a shape looks like when opened into a 2D shape. The net can help to show the areas of each face that make up the surface area of a shape. The same units are needed for ...