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So how did you see that this was incorrect so quickly? Had you seen this balloon floated before?

I'm afraid I see that you are correct. Just shows that intuition is no match for actually crunching some numbers... Thanks for the coaxing.

On my drive home I convinced myself that my method is correct (even if my explanation may not have been very good :smile: ) I convinced myself with the following analogy. Imagine that the object in question--lets say it's a turned chair leg with lots of nice curves and a constantly changing...

Assuming no hollow center though, would my method work? I understand that what I'm assuming would not be universally applicable, but may rather be a special case. I'm going to work on it some more to at least understand where this method fails (FWIW, this is not a class assignment but...

Calculating Surface area/volume from 2D cross section?? I'm feeling a little stupid today and I need some help...:tongue2: Assume that I have a radially-symmetric 3D object (for example a candle stick or the base of a table lamp) and that I can calculate the surface area of the largest...