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, [5], (*55)
Rotation group C5, [5]+, (55)
Dual polyhedron -
Properties convex
Net
File: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 pentagonal cupola consists of 5 equilateral triangles, 5 squares, 1 pentagon, and 1 decagon.

A Johnson solid is one of 92 strictly convex polyhedra that have regular faces but are not uniform (that is, they are not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms or antiprisms). They were named by Norman Johnson, who first listed these polyhedra in 1966.[1]

Formulae

The following formulae for volume, surface area and circumradius can be used if all faces are regular, with edge length a:[2]

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

A=\left(\frac{1}{4}\left(20+5\sqrt{3}+\sqrt{5(145+62\sqrt{5})}\right)\right)a^2=\left(\frac{1}{4}\left(20+\sqrt{10\left(80+31\sqrt{5}+\sqrt{15(145+62\sqrt{5})}\right)}\right)\right)a^2\approx16.5797...a^2

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

Related polyhedra

Dual polyhedron

The dual of the pentagonal cupola has 10 triangular faces and 5 kite faces:

Dual pentagonal cupola Net of dual
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Other convex cupolae

Family of convex cupolae
n 2 3 4 5 6
Name {2} || t{2} {3} || t{3} {4} || t{4} {5} || t{5} {6} || t{6}
Cupola Triangular prism wedge.png
Digonal cupola
Triangular cupola.png
Triangular cupola
Square cupola.png
Square cupola
Pentagonal cupola.png
Pentagonal cupola
Hexagonal cupola flat.png
Hexagonal cupola
(Flat)
Related
uniform
polyhedra
Triangular prism
CDel node 1.pngCDel 2.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.png
Cubocta-
hedron

CDel node 1.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.png
Rhombi-
cubocta-
hedron

CDel node 1.pngCDel 4.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.png
Rhomb-
icosidodeca-
hedron

CDel node 1.pngCDel 5.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.png
Rhombi-
trihexagonal
tiling

CDel node 1.pngCDel 6.pngCDel node.pngCDel 3.pngCDel node 1.png

Crossed pentagrammic cupola

In geometry, the crossed pentagrammic cupola is one of the nonconvex Johnson solid isomorphs, being topologically identical to the convex pentagonal cupola. It can be obtained as a slice of the nonconvex great rhombicosidodecahedron or quasirhombicosidodecahedron, analogously to how the pentagonal cupola may be obtained as a slice of the rhombicosidodecahedron. As in all cupolae, the base polygon has twice as many edges and vertices as the top; in this case the base polygon is a decagram.

It may be seen as a cupola with a retrograde pentagrammic base, so that the squares and triangles connect across the bases in the opposite way to the pentagrammic cuploid, hence intersecting each other more deeply.

References

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

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