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  2. Tetrahedron - Wikipedia

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    A central cross section of a regular tetrahedron is a square. The two skew perpendicular opposite edges of a regular tetrahedron define a set of parallel planes. When one of these planes intersects the tetrahedron the resulting cross section is a rectangle. [11] When the intersecting plane is near one of the edges the rectangle is long and skinny.

  3. Surface area - Wikipedia

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    A sphere of radius r has surface area 4πr 2.. The surface area (symbol A) of a solid object is a measure of the total area that the surface of the object occupies. [1] The mathematical definition of surface area in the presence of curved surfaces is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length of one-dimensional curves, or of the surface area for polyhedra (i.e., objects with ...

  4. Platonic solid - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space.Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edges congruent), and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.

  5. List of formulas in elementary geometry - Wikipedia

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    The basic quantities describing a sphere (meaning a 2-sphere, a 2-dimensional surface inside 3-dimensional space) will be denoted by the following variables r {\displaystyle r} is the radius, C = 2 π r {\displaystyle C=2\pi r} is the circumference (the length of any one of its great circles ),

  6. Simplex - Wikipedia

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    For example, a 7-simplex is (1,1) 8 = (1,2,1) 4 = (1,4,6,4,1) 2 = (1,8,28,56,70,56,28,8,1). The number of 1-faces (edges) of the n -simplex is the n -th triangle number , the number of 2-faces of the n -simplex is the ( n − 1) th tetrahedron number , the number of 3-faces of the n -simplex is the ( n − 2) th 5-cell number, and so on.

  7. Gabriel's horn - Wikipedia

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    Graph of = /. Gabriel's horn is formed by taking the graph of =, with the domain and rotating it in three dimensions about the x axis. The discovery was made using Cavalieri's principle before the invention of calculus, but today, calculus can be used to calculate the volume and surface area of the horn between x = 1 and x = a, where a > 1. [6]

  8. Solid geometry - Wikipedia

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    A solid figure is the region of 3D space bounded by a two-dimensional closed surface; for example, a solid ball consists of a sphere and its interior. Solid geometry deals with the measurements of volumes of various solids, including pyramids , prisms (and other polyhedrons ), cubes , cylinders , cones (and truncated cones ).

  9. Trirectangular tetrahedron - Wikipedia

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    If the legs have lengths a, b, c, then the trirectangular tetrahedron has the volume [2] =. The altitude h satisfies [3] = + +. The area of the base is given by [4] =. The solid angle at the right-angled vertex, from which the opposite face (the base) subtends an octant, has measure π /2 steradians, one eighth of the surface area of a unit sphere.