Pentagonal cupola

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 produces two or more regular polyhedrons by slicing it with a plane, an elementary polyhedron's example.Template:R

The following formulae for circumradius $R$, and height $h$, surface area $A$, and volume $V$ may be applied if all faces are regular with edge length $a$:Template:R $$\begin{array}{rlr}h& =\sqrt{\frac{5-\sqrt{5}}{10}}a& \approx 0.526a,\\ R& =\frac{\sqrt{11+4\sqrt{5}}}{2}a& \approx 2.233a,\\ A& =\frac{20+5\sqrt{3}+\sqrt{5(145+62\sqrt{5})}}{4}{a}^2& \approx 16.580a^2,\\ V& =\frac{5+4\sqrt{5}}{6}{a}^3& \approx 2.324a^3.\end{array}$$

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 $C_{5\mathrm{v}}$ of order ten.Template:R

Related polyhedron

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: elongated pentagonal cupola $J_{20}$, gyroelongated pentagonal cupola $J_{24}$, pentagonal orthobicupola $J_{30}$, pentagonal gyrobicupola $J_{31}$, pentagonal orthocupolarotunda $J_{32}$, pentagonal gyrocupolarotunda $J_{33}$, elongated pentagonal orthobicupola $J_{38}$, elongated pentagonal gyrobicupola $J_{39}$, elongated pentagonal orthocupolarotunda $J_{40}$, gyroelongated pentagonal bicupola $J_{46}$, gyroelongated pentagonal cupolarotunda $J_{47}$, augmented truncated dodecahedron $J_{68}$, parabiaugmented truncated dodecahedron $J_{69}$, metabiaugmented truncated dodecahedron $J_{70}$, triaugmented truncated dodecahedron $J_{71}$, gyrate rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{72}$, parabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{73}$, metabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{74}$, and trigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{75}$. Relatedly, a construction from polyhedra by removing one or more pentagonal cupolas is known as diminishment: diminished rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{76}$, paragyrate diminished rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{77}$, metagyrate diminished rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{78}$, bigyrate diminished rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{79}$, parabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{80}$, metabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{81}$, gyrate bidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{82}$, and tridiminished rhombicosidodecahedron $J_{83}$.Template:R

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