In week 9, we have constructed 3-D shapes, looked at five
Platonic solids, and built a soccer ball using paper, scissors and glue; thus using elements of experiential learning techniques in the comprehension of dimensions.
The hexahedron is a
Platonic solid;" and "The hexa(hexa=six)hedron's six faces are all squares.
Dimensions five and higher contain just three
platonic solids analogs of the cube, tetrahedron, and octahedron.
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Stainless steel was picked to develop the
platonic solids, due to its strength, corrosion-resistance, and ability to achieve the daytime and night-time finishes desired by the design team.
Of the five
Platonic solids, only the cube and the icosahedron allow for arrangements of trajectories that can form strictly fine regular stars even for charged particles, provided these have equal masses and absolute values for oppositely charged particles (neither tetrahedron, nor octahedron can form these).
Platonic solids used to sheikh zayeds portrait at the Founder's memorial, which opens to the public Photo Ahm Image Credit: Anwar Ahmad, Staff Reporter
The
platonic solids make for a handy ornament, or stash for paper clips and tacks.
Rather than a person who thinks as modern scientists do, we find Kepler continuing to try to fit his elliptical orbits into a model motivated by the five
Platonic solids as explanation for the planetary spacing (p.
The first class to be discovered, called the
Platonic solids, have identical faces that are all regular polygons, or shapes with equal sides and angles.
A few among them have been mathematicians who have obsessed about
Platonic solids, a class of geometric forms that are highly regular and are commonly found in nature.
The
Platonic solids group includes convex regular polyhedrons that have similar regular polygons on all faces and each vertex is incident with an equal number of edges or faces.