Wolfram Demonstrations Project

12,000+ Open Interactive Demonstrations
Powered by Notebook Technology »

Deriving the Formula for the Area of a Parallelogram

Initializing live version
Download to Desktop

Requires a Wolfram Notebook System

Interact on desktop, mobile and cloud with the free Wolfram Player or other Wolfram Language products.

The Demonstration shows a graphics derivation of formula for the area of the parallelogram given by points , , , and , namely . The area of triangle , , is . Since the expression could be negative, it gives the so-called signed area.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (April 2013)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

Snapshots

Details

The expression is the determinant of the 2×2 matrix .

Embed Code

Take advantage of the Wolfram Notebook Emebedder for the recommended user experience.

Related Demonstrations More by Author
Browse all topics
Feedback (field required)
Email (field required) Name
Occupation Organization
Note: Your message & contact information may be shared with the author of any specific Demonstration for which you give feedback.
Send