Pentagonal cupola

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Pentagonal cupola
Pentagonal cupola.png
Type Johnson
J4 - J5 - J6
Faces 5 triangles
5 squares
1 pentagon
1 decagon
Edges 25
Vertices 15
Vertex configuration 10(3.4.10)
5(3.4.5.4)
Symmetry group C5v
Dual polyhedron -
Properties convex
Net
Pentagonal Cupola.PNG

In geometry, the pentagonal cupola is one of the Johnson solids (J5). It can be obtained as a slice of the rhombicosidodecahedron.

The 92 Johnson solids were named and described by Norman Johnson in 1966.

The pentagonal cupola consists of 5 equilateral triangles, 5 squares, 1 pentagon, and 1 decagon.

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[edit] Formulae

The following formulae for volume, surface area and circumradius can be used if all faces are regular, with edge length a:[1]

V=(\frac{1}{6}(5+4\sqrt{5})a^3\approx2.32405...a^3

A=(\frac{1}{4}(20+\sqrt{10(80+31\sqrt{5}+\sqrt{2175+930\sqrt5})}))a^2\approx16.5797...a^2

C=(\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{11+4\sqrt{5}})a\approx2.23295...a

[edit] Dual polyhedron

The dual of the pentagonal cupola has 20 triangular faces:

Dual pentagonal cupola Net of dual
Dual pentagonal cupola.png Dual pentagonal cupola net.png

[edit] References

  1. ^ Stephen Wolfram, "Pentagonal cupola" from Wolfram Alpha. Retrieved July 21, 2010.

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