Tridiminished icosahedron

{{Short description|63rd Johnson solid}}

{{Infobox polyhedron

| image = Tridiminished icosahedron.png

| type = Johnson
{{math|metabidiminished icosahedronJ{{sub|63}}augmented tridiminished icosahedron}}

| faces = 5 triangles
3 pentagons

| edges = 15

| vertices = 9

| symmetry = C_{3 \mathrm{v}}

| vertex_config = 2 \times 3 \times (3 \times 5^2) + 3 \times (3^3 \times 5)

| properties = convex,
non-composite

| net = Johnson solid 63 net.png

}}

In geometry, the tridiminished icosahedron is a Johnson solid that is constructed by removing three pentagonal pyramids from a regular icosahedron.

Construction

The tridiminished icosahedron can be constructed by removing three regular pentagonal pyramid from a regular icosahedron.{{r|gailiunas}} The aftereffect of such construction leaves five equilateral triangles and three regular pentagons.{{r|berman}} Since all of its faces are regular polygons and the resulting polyhedron remains convex, the tridiminished icosahedron is a Johnson solid, and it is enumerated as the sixty-third Johnson solid J_{63} .{{r|francis}} This construction is similar to other Johnson solids as in gyroelongated pentagonal pyramid and metabidiminished icosahedron.{{r|gailiunas}}

The tridiminished icosahedron is non-composite polyhedron, meaning it is convex polyhedron that cannot be separated by a plane into two or more regular polyhedrons.{{r|timofeenko-2009}}

Properties

The surface area of a tridiminished icosahedron A is the sum of all polygonal faces' area: five equilateral triangles and three regular pentagons. Its volume V can be ascertained by subtracting the volume of a regular icosahedron with the volume of three pentagonal pyramids. Given that a is the edge length of a tridiminished icosahedron, they are:{{r|berman}}

\begin{align}

A &= \frac{5 \sqrt{3}+3 \sqrt{5 \left(5+2 \sqrt{5}\right)}}{4} a^2 &\approx 7.3265a^2, \\

V &= \frac{15 + 7 \sqrt{5}}{24}a^3 &\approx 1.2772a^3.

\end{align}

See also

References

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