Nov. 14, 2011 -- Mini strokes, with symptoms that last just a few minutes or hours, are well-recognized warning signs for potentially deadly larger strokes. Now new research confirms that they are associated with a lower life expectancy.
A cross section is the shape we get when cutting straight through an object. The cross section of this object is a triangle. It is like a view into the inside of something made by cutting through it.
Any plane can be used to cut through the surface, but when that plane is perpendicular to an axis of symmetry, its projection is called a cross-sectional area. For a simple three-dimensional shape, such as a cylinder, the cross-sectional projection is a circle, and the area is easy to calculate.With such shapes as an I-beam, however, calculating the cross-sectional area can be complicated. Be sure to use the correct units when you calculate the area of a cross-section: this will be square units, such as square inches, square meters, and so on.