Cylinder Curved Surface Area Calculator

How to use Cylinder Curved Surface Area Calculator

Enter ✎ value for radius \((r)\).
Enter ✎ value for height \((h)\).
The result appears beneath the inputs as you enter values.

About this calculation

The Curved Surface Area of a Cylinder is a measure of the surface area of cylinder excluding the area of circular faces.

Formula

To calculate the cylinder curved surface area, you can use the following formula.

Curved Surface Area = \( 2 π r h \)

where

Calculation

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