Spherinder

The spherinder can be seen as the volume between two parallel and equal solid 2-spheres (3-balls) in 4-dimensional space, here stereographically projected into 3D.

In four-dimensional geometry, the spherinder, or spherical cylinder or spherical prism, is a geometric object, defined as the Cartesian product of a 3-ball (or solid 2-sphere) of radius r₁ and a line segment of length 2r₂:

$D=\{(x,y,z,w)|x^2+y^2+z^2\le r_1^2,w^2\le r_2^2\}$

Like the duocylinder, it is also analogous to a cylinder in 3-space, which is the Cartesian product of a disk with a line segment.

It can be seen in 3-dimensional space by stereographic projection as two concentric spheres, in a similar way that a tesseract (cubic prism) can be projected as two concentric cubes, and how a circular cylinder can be projected into 2-dimensional space as two concentric circles.

Spherindrical coordinate system

One can define a "spherindrical" coordinate system Template:Math, consisting of spherical coordinates with an extra coordinate Template:Mvar. This is analogous to how cylindrical coordinates are defined: Template:Mvar and Template:Mvar being polar coordinates with an elevation coordinate Template:Mvar. Spherindrical coordinates can be converted to Cartesian coordinates using the formulas $$\begin{array}{cc}x& =r\cos \phi \sin \theta \\ y& =r\sin \phi \sin \theta \\ z& =r\cos \theta \\ w& =w\end{array}$$ where Template:Mvar is the radius, Template:Mvar is the zenith angle, Template:Mvar is the azimuthal angle, and Template:Mvar is the height. Cartesian coordinates can be converted to spherindrical coordinates using the formulas $$\begin{array}{cc}r& =\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}\\ \phi & =\arctan \frac{y}{x}\\ \theta & =\mathrm{arccot}\frac{z}{\sqrt{x^2+y^2}}\\ w& =w\end{array}$$The hypervolume element for spherindrical coordinates is $\mathrm{d}H=r^2\sin \theta \mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}\theta \mathrm{d}\phi \mathrm{d}w,$ which can be derived by computing the Jacobian.

Measurements

Hypervolume

Given a spherinder with a spherical base of radius Template:Mvar and a height Template:Mvar, the hypervolume of the spherinder is given by $$H=\frac{4}{3}\pi r^{3}h$$

Surface volume

The surface volume of a spherinder, like the surface area of a cylinder, is made up of three parts:

• the volume of the top base: $\frac{4}{3}\pi r^3$
• the volume of the bottom base: $\frac{4}{3}\pi r^3$
• the volume of the lateral 3D surface: $4\pi r^{2}h$, which is the surface area of the spherical base times the height

Therefore, the total surface volume is

$$SV=\frac{8}{3}\pi r^3+4\pi r^{2}h$$

Proof

The above formulas for hypervolume and surface volume can be proven using integration. The hypervolume of an arbitrary 4D region is given by the quadruple integral $$H=\underset{D}{⨌}\mathrm{d}H$$

The hypervolume of the spherinder can be integrated over spherindrical coordinates. $$H_{\mathrm{s}\mathrm{p}\mathrm{h}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{r}\mathrm{i}\mathrm{n}\mathrm{d}\mathrm{e}\mathrm{r}}=\underset{D}{⨌}\mathrm{d}H=\underset{0}{\overset{h}{\int }}\underset{0}{\overset{2\pi }{\int }}\underset{0}{\overset{\pi }{\int }}\underset{0}{\overset{R}{\int }}{r}^2\sin \theta \mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}\theta \mathrm{d}\phi \mathrm{d}w=\frac{4}{3}\pi R^{3}h$$

Related 4-polytopes

The related truncated icosidodecahedral prism is constructed from two truncated icosidodecahedra connected by prisms, shown here in stereographic projection with some prisms hidden.

The spherinder is related to the uniform prismatic polychora, which are cartesian product of a regular or semiregular polyhedron and a line segment. There are eighteen convex uniform prisms based on the Platonic and Archimedean solids (tetrahedral prism, truncated tetrahedral prism, cubic prism, cuboctahedral prism, octahedral prism, rhombicuboctahedral prism, truncated cubic prism, truncated octahedral prism, truncated cuboctahedral prism, snub cubic prism, dodecahedral prism, icosidodecahedral prism, icosahedral prism, truncated dodecahedral prism, rhombicosidodecahedral prism, truncated icosahedral prism, truncated icosidodecahedral prism, snub dodecahedral prism), plus an infinite family based on antiprisms, and another infinite family of uniform duoprisms, which are products of two regular polygons.

See also

• Clifford torus

References

• The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained, Henry P. Manning, Munn & Company, 1910, New York. Available from the University of Virginia library. Also accessible online: The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained—contains a description of duoprisms and duocylinders (double cylinders)
• The Visual Guide To Extra Dimensions: Visualizing The Fourth Dimension, Higher-Dimensional Polytopes, And Curved Hypersurfaces, Chris McMullen, 2008, Template:Isbn