The easiest way to calculate the volume of a cylinder is to multiply the area on the end of the cylinder by the height of the cylinder. The formula is volume is equal to pi times radius squared times height. Measure the height or length with a ruler from the base point to the tip and then multiply this measurement by pi. Pi is twenty two divided by seven and is the constant that is used to calculate diameter of a circle. Measure the radius by measuring the distance from the center of the circle to the edge of the circle and then square these measurements (in other words multiply it by itself). Multiply both of these results by each other. Remember your answer is now a cubic measurement.

Strictly speaking as the cylinder is empty and the sides have no thickness the volume is null. Referring to the volume of a cylinder in actuality is technically speaking saying how much fluid it could hold. Regarding this when we speak of the volume of an empty cylinder we should to be technically correct say ‘the enclosed volume of the cylinder'. A cylinder consists of three faces, two bases, and two edges and is three dimensional. In simple terms volume is how much space when filled up completely a fluid takes up within a container.

Always remember that your radius and height measurements need to be in the same units. Convert the units if either is different or your calculation will be completely wrong. For example if one is in centimeters and the other in meters convert both to the same measure. It often happens that people forget to convert to the same unit and the result is losing easy marks in a mathematics exam Follow the easy steps above and you will not struggle with working out the volume of a cylinder. When calculating anything in mathematics consider what would make sense and then how to calculate it will be much easier. Volume of Cylinder.