As with prisms,cylinderscan berightoroblique. The side of a right cylinderis perpendicularto its circular
bases.The side of an obliquecylinderis not perpendicularto its bases.
SurfaceAreaof a CylinderUsingNets
You can deconstructa cylinderinto a net.
The area of eachbaseis givenby the area of a circle:
The area of the rectangularlateralareaLis givenby the productof a widthand height.The heightis given
as 24. You can see that the widthof the area is equalto the circumferenceof the circularbase.