In this video we'll learn how to find the surface area of cylinders, which we'll do by finding the area of the base (the area of a circle), and multiplying that by 2 to account for the surface area of the top and the bottom of the cylinder. The surface area of the side we'll find by recognizing that the side is a rectangle with length equal to the circumference of the circular base, and width equal to the height of the cylinder.

Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 25, 2015.

Surface Area of Cylinders: Geometry-Three-Dimensional Geometry --(6:44).