Truncated Cone.

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In the diagram above, a sphere is inscribed in a truncated cone such that the volume of the truncated cone is twice the volume of the sphere.

Find the measure of the slant height angle(in degrees) made with the larger base.


The answer is 63.43494882.

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Rocco Dalto
Feb 5, 2020

Using the fact that tangents to a circle from an outside point are congruent we obtain the diagram above.

The height h h of the truncated cone is h = 2 r h = 2r

Using right A B C \triangle{ABC} we have:

( w + m ) 2 = ( w m ) 2 + 4 r 2 w 2 + 2 w m + m 2 = w 2 2 w m + m 2 + 4 r 2 4 w m = 4 r 2 r 2 = w m (w + m)^2 = (w - m)^2 + 4r^2 \implies w^2 + 2wm + m^2 = w^2 - 2wm + m^2 + 4r^2 \implies 4wm = 4r^2 \implies r^2 = wm \implies

r = w m r = \sqrt{wm} .

The volume of the inscribed sphere V s = 4 3 π ( w m ) 3 2 V_{s} = \dfrac{4}{3}\pi(wm)^{\frac{3}{2}}

and

The volume of the truncated cone is V T = 2 π 3 ( w 2 + w m + m 2 ) ( w m ) 1 2 V_{T} = \dfrac{2\pi}{3}(w^2 + wm + m^2)(wm)^{\frac{1}{2}}

V T = 2 V s w 2 + w m + m 2 = 4 w m w 2 3 w m + m 2 = 0 V_{T} = 2V_{s} \implies w^2 + wm + m^2 = 4wm \implies w^2 - 3wm + m^2 = 0 \implies w = ( 3 ± 5 2 ) m w = (\dfrac{3 \pm \sqrt{5}}{2})m

Since w m > 1 \dfrac{w}{m} > 1 we choose w = ( 3 + 5 2 ) m cos ( θ ) = w = (\dfrac{3 + \sqrt{5}}{2})m \implies \cos(\theta) = w m w + m = 1 + 5 5 + 5 = 1 5 \dfrac{w - m}{w + m} = \dfrac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{5 + \sqrt{5}} = \dfrac{1}{\sqrt{5}}

θ 63.4349488 2 \implies \theta \approx \boxed{63.43494882^{\circ}} .

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Valentin Duringer - 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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This was an old problem. I don't remember some of the problems I did in the past. Thanks for solving it.

Rocco Dalto - 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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