Mathematics-Online lexicon: Volume of a Tetrahedron

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	Volume of a Tetrahedron

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The volume

of a tetrahedron spanned by the vectors $\vec{a}$ , $\vec{b}$ und $\vec{c}$ can be calculated by

$\displaystyle V=\frac{1}{6}\vert[\vec{a},\vec{b},\vec{c}]\vert\,.$

$\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{tetraeder_volumen.eps}$

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automatically generated 3/28/2008