Friday, May 4, 2012

How Do We Identify Solids?

In geometry there are a whole bunch of different shapes. There is a term called SOLID GEOMETRY. Solid Geometry is the geometry of 3-D shapes. There are two types of solids: Polyhedra and Non-Polyhedra 


 -Polyhedra: a 3-D solid figure in which each side has a flat surface. Those surfaces are polygons that are joined at their edges. A Polyhedron has NO CURVED SURFACES!!!! 
          • Called regular if the faces are Congruent 
          • Also if the Regular Polygons and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.
 Example: Pyramid, Prism. 


 -Non Polyhedra: a 3-D figure that has cures in their shape. 
 Example: Cylinder, Cone, Sphere.





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