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Ellipse Area Calculator – illustration of an ellipse with its axes

Ellipse Area Calculator

An ellipse’s area (also called an oval’s area) depends on two independent measurements — a semi-major axis and a semi-minor axis — unlike a circle, where the radius alone determines everything. This calculator finds the area, perimeter, eccentricity, and focal…

Regular Polygon Area Calculator – illustration of a regular hexagon

Regular Polygon Area Calculator

A regular polygon’s area — hexagon, pentagon, octagon, or any number of sides — can be found from whichever measurement you already know: side length, apothem (inradius), circumradius, perimeter, or even the area itself worked backward. This calculator handles any…

Area Unit Conversion Calculator – illustration of square metre and square foot blocks

Area Unit Conversion Calculator

An area unit conversion comes up constantly once you’ve calculated an area: a floor plan in square feet needs to become square meters for an international contractor, a land survey in acres needs to become hectares for a metric spreadsheet,…

Sports Field & Home Plate Area Calculator – illustration of a sports field

Sports Field & Home Plate Area Calculator

A sports field or court’s area is almost always a simple rectangle — length times width — but the exact dimensions differ by sport, level of play, and governing body, and a few fields aren’t rectangles at all. This calculator…

Solar Panel Area Calculator – illustration of a solar panel

Solar Panel Area Calculator

A solar panel’s area is the starting point for two very different questions: how much a single panel takes up, and how much roof or ground space an entire system needs. This calculator handles both, plus a third common question…

Sail Area Calculator – illustration of a sailboat

Sail Area Calculator

A boat’s sail area is the total surface of cloth driving it through the water, and it’s calculated the same way for almost every fore-and-aft rig: each sail is treated as a triangle, using a small set of standard rig…

Area Model Calculator – illustration of an area model grid

Area Model Calculator

The area model is a way of picturing a calculation as the area of a rectangle, split into smaller rectangles that are easier to work out and add back together. It shows up under a few different names — the…

Pizza Size Comparison Calculator – illustration of a pizza cut into slices

Pizza Size Comparison Calculator

A pizza’s price tag is based on its diameter, but what you actually eat is its area — and area does not grow at the same rate as diameter. This calculator finds the exact area of any round pizza from…

Area Moment of Inertia Calculator – illustration of an I-beam cross-section

Area Moment of Inertia Calculator

Rectangle Hollow Rectangle (Tube) Circle Round Tube (Pipe) Isosceles Triangle Symmetric I-Beam Length unit for your inputs: inches (in)millimeters (mm)centimeters (cm)meters (m)feet (ft) Width (b) Height (h) Outer Width (B) Outer Height (H) Wall Thickness (t) Assumes a uniform wall…