Pentagonal cupola

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In geometry, the pentagonal cupola is one of the Johnson solids (Template:Math). 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.

Properties

The pentagonal cupola's faces are five equilateral triangles, five squares, one regular pentagon, and one regular decagon.Template:R It has the property of convexity and regular polygonal faces, from which it is classified as the fifth Johnson solid.Template:R This cupola cannot be sliced by a plane without cutting within a face, so it is an elementary polyhedron.Template:R

The following formulae for circumradius <math> R </math>, and height <math> h </math>, surface area <math> A </math>, and volume <math> V </math> may be applied if all faces are regular with edge length <math> a </math>:Template:R <math display="block"> \begin{align}

h &= \sqrt{\frac{5 - \sqrt{5}}{10}}a &\approx 0.526a, \\
R &= \frac{\sqrt{11+4\sqrt{5}}}{2}a &\approx 2.233a, \\
A &= \frac{20+5\sqrt{3}+\sqrt{5\left(145+62\sqrt{5}\right)}}{4}a^2 &\approx 16.580a^2, \\
V &= \frac{5+4\sqrt{5}}{6}a^3 &\approx 2.324a^3.

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File:Cupula pentagonal 3D.stl
3D model of a pentagonal cupola

It has an axis of symmetry passing through the center of both top and base, which is symmetrical by rotating around it at one-, two-, three-, and four-fifth of a full-turn angle. It is also mirror-symmetric relative to any perpendicular plane passing through a bisector of the hexagonal base. Therefore, it has pyramidal symmetry, the cyclic group <math> C_{5\mathrm{v}} </math> of order ten.Template:R

The pentagonal cupola can be applied to construct a polyhedron. A construction that involves the attachment of its base to another polyhedron is known as augmentation; attaching it to prisms or antiprisms is known as elongation or gyroelongation.Template:R Some of the Johnson solids with such constructions are:

Relatedly, a construction from polyhedra by removing one or more pentagonal cupolas is known as diminishmentTemplate:R:

References

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