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The tetrahedron is one kind of pyramid, which is a polyhedron with a flat polygon base and triangular faces connecting the base to a common point. In the case of a tetrahedron, the base is a triangle (any of the four faces can be considered the base), so a tetrahedron is also known as a "triangular pyramid".
In geometry, a triangular prism or trigonal prism [1] is a prism with 2 triangular bases. If the edges pair with each triangle's vertex and if they are perpendicular to the base, it is a right triangular prism. A right triangular prism may be both semiregular and uniform. The triangular prism can be used in constructing another polyhedron.
[15] [16] Examples are square pyramid and pentagonal pyramid, a four- and five-triangular faces pyramid with a square and pentagon base, respectively; they are classified as the first and second Johnson solid if their regular faces and edges that are equal in length, and their symmetries are C 4v of order 8 and C 5v of order 10, respectively.
The basic 3-dimensional element are the tetrahedron, quadrilateral pyramid, triangular prism, and hexahedron. They all have triangular and quadrilateral faces. Extruded 2-dimensional models may be represented entirely by the prisms and hexahedra as extruded triangles and quadrilaterals.
Square pyramid; Triangular bipyramid; Triangular cupola; Triangular hebesphenorotunda; Triangular orthobicupola; Triaugmented dodecahedron; Triaugmented hexagonal prism; Triaugmented triangular prism; Triaugmented truncated dodecahedron; Tridiminished icosahedron; Tridiminished rhombicosidodecahedron; Trigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron
Pyramid of Khafre, Egypt, built c. 2600 BC. A pyramid (from Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís) 'pyramid') [1] [2] is a structure whose visible surfaces are triangular in broad outline and converge toward the top, making the appearance roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense.
b = the base side of the prism's triangular base, h = the height of the prism's triangular base L = the length of the prism see above for general triangular base Isosceles triangular prism: b = the base side of the prism's triangular base, h = the height of the prism's triangular base
A triaugmented triangular prism with edge length has surface area [10], the area of 14 equilateral triangles. Its volume, [10] +, can be derived by slicing it into a central prism and three square pyramids, and adding their volumes.