Rectangular Prism Formulas For prisms, all the sides extend upward from the base area before being capped with a top face like a flat roof on a large building. Use the following formula variations ...

the prism is called a hexagonal prism. The surface area is made up of the end faces and rectangular faces that join them. To calculate the total surface area of a prism: Find the area of the two ...

Image caption, The faces of a prism are the congruent polygon ‘ends’, plus the rectangles that join them. The number of rectangular faces is equal to the number of sides of the polygon cross ...