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The surface-area-to-volume ratio has physical dimension inverse length (L −1) and is therefore expressed in units of inverse metre (m −1) or its prefixed unit multiples and submultiples. As an example, a cube with sides of length 1 cm will have a surface area of 6 cm 2 and a volume of 1 cm 3. The surface to volume ratio for this cube is thus
3D model of a truncated cube. In geometry, the truncated cube, or truncated hexahedron, is an Archimedean solid. It has 14 regular faces (6 octagonal and 8 triangular), 36 edges, and 24 vertices. If the truncated cube has unit edge length, its dual triakis octahedron has edges of lengths 2 and δ S +1, where δ S is the silver ratio, √ 2 +1.
If the volume of a sphere is equated to the volume of a cube, the equivalent radius is a times cube root of 3/(4*pi), and the corresponding SA:V is a divided into the cube root of 4/(3*pi). -- Jan Galkowski disneylogic ( talk ) original 20:45, 17 September 2010 (UTC), revised 72.246.0.10 ( talk ) 15:56, 18 September 2010 (UTC) [ reply ]
For most practical purposes, the volume inside a sphere inscribed in a cube can be approximated as 52.4% of the volume of the cube, since V = π / 6 d 3, where d is the diameter of the sphere and also the length of a side of the cube and π / 6 ≈ 0.5236.
If the edge length of a regular dodecahedron is , the radius of a circumscribed sphere (one that touches the regular dodecahedron at all vertices), the radius of an inscribed sphere (tangent to each of the regular dodecahedron's faces), and the midradius (one that touches the middle of each edge) are: [21] =, =, =. Given a regular dodecahedron ...
The surface area and the volume of the truncated icosahedron of edge length are: [2] = (+ +) = +. The sphericity of a polyhedron describes how closely a polyhedron resembles a sphere. It can be defined as the ratio of the surface area of a sphere with the same volume to the polyhedron's surface area, from which the value is between 0 and 1.
The surface area A and the volume V of the rhombic dodecahedron with edge length a are: [4] =, =. The rhombic dodecahedron can be viewed as the convex hull of the union of the vertices of a cube and an octahedron where the edges intersect perpendicularly.
An icosahedron of edge length can be inscribed in a unit-edge-length cube by placing six of its edges (3 orthogonal opposite pairs) on the square faces of the cube, centered on the face centers and parallel or perpendicular to the square's edges. [19]