Cylinders and Quadric Surfaces
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Mathematics/Calculus
CylindersDefinition 1. A cylinder is a surface that is generated by moving a straight line along a given planar curve while holding the line parallel to a given fixed line. The curve is called a generating curve for the cylinder. In solid geometry, where cylinder means circular cylinder, the generating curves are circles, but now we allow generating curves of any kind.RemarkRemark. any curve $f(..