Pentagonal gyrobicupola
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The pentagonal gyrobicupola is a polyhedron that is constructed by attaching two pentagonal cupolas base-to-base, each of its cupolas is twisted at 36°. It is an example of a Johnson solid and a composite polyhedron.
ConstructionEdit
The pentagonal gyrobicupola is a composite polyhedron: it is constructed by attaching two pentagonal cupolas base-to-base. This construction is similar to the pentagonal orthobicupola; the difference is that one of cupolas in the pentagonal gyrobicupola is twisted at 36°, as suggested by the prefix gyro-. The resulting polyhedron has the same faces as the pentagonal orthobicupola does: those cupolas cover their decagonal bases, replacing it with eight equilateral triangles, eight squares, and two regular pentagons.Template:R A convex polyhedron in which all of its faces are regular polygons is the Johnson solid. The pentagonal gyrobicupola has such these, enumerating it as the thirty-first Johnson solid <math> J_{31} </math>.Template:R
PropertiesEdit
Because it has a similar construction as the pentagonal orthobicupola, the surface area of a pentagonal gyrobicupola <math> A </math> is the sum of polygonal faces' area, and its volume <math> V </math> is twice the volume of a pentagonal cupola for which slicing it into those:Template:R <math display="block"> \begin{align}
A &= \frac{20 + \sqrt{100 + 10 \sqrt{5} + 10\sqrt{75+30\sqrt{5}}}}{2}a^2 \approx 17.771a^2, \\
V &= \frac{5+4\sqrt{5}}{3}a^3 \approx 4.648a^3.
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