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    Graduate Surface area of a truncated ellipsoid

    Thanks for everyone's help. I found this site yesterday and modified the equation for the surface area for a spherical cap to calculate the surface area of the ellipsoidal cap: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalCap.html So this site says that the surface area of a spherical cap =...
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    Graduate Surface area of a truncated ellipsoid

    Hi, I'm a biology PhD student looking for some help on how to calculate (or estimate) the surface area of an ellipsoid truncated parallel to the long axis. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Murphy24