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The pieces of a Soma cube The same puzzle, assembled into a cube. The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by Danish polymath Piet Hein in 1933 [1] during a lecture on quantum mechanics conducted by Werner Heisenberg.
The volume of a cuboid is the product of its length, width, and height. Because all the edges of a cube are equal in length, the formula for the volume of a cube as the third power of its side length, leading to the use of the term cubic to mean raising any number to the third power: [ 7 ] [ 6 ] V = a 3 . {\displaystyle V=a^{3}.}
An example of the tetragonal crystals, wulfenite Two different views (top down and from the side) of the unit cell of tP30-CrFe (σ-phase Frank–Kasper structure) that show its different side lengths, making this structure a member of the tetragonal crystal system.
Illustration of the close-packing of equal spheres in both HCP (left) and FCC (right) lattices. In geometry, close-packing of equal spheres is a dense arrangement of congruent spheres in an infinite, regular arrangement (or lattice).
A tetrahedron is a disphenoid if and only if its circumscribed parallelepiped is right-angled. [9]We also have that a tetrahedron is a disphenoid if and only if the center in the circumscribed sphere and the inscribed sphere coincide.
A sample of a material is called dilative if its volume increases with increasing shear and contractive if the volume decreases with increasing shear. [7] [8] Dilatancy is a common feature of soils and sands. Its effect can be seen when the wet sand around the foot of a person walking on beach appears to dry up.