Paraboloid Volume Calculator

Enter the base radius and height to find the paraboloid volume.

How to use

  1. Enter your values in the fields above.
  2. Press Calculate to see your result instantly.
  3. Use the Share button to copy a link to your result.

About this calculator

A paraboloid of revolution is the bowl-shaped solid formed by rotating a parabola around its axis — the shape of a satellite dish, a parabolic reflector, or a paraboloid water tank. Its volume, found by integrating the cross-sectional disc area π·y² along the axis for a parabola y² = (r²/h)·x, works out to the elegantly simple V = ½ · π · r² · h, exactly half the volume of the cylinder that encloses it.

That “exactly half the cylinder” relationship is a handy sanity check and a classic calculus result, and it makes the paraboloid volume quick to estimate for anything from dish antenna capacity to concrete or liquid fill calculations for paraboloid-shaped containers. This calculator takes the base radius and height and returns the volume directly from that formula.

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