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Triangular Prism


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TriangularPrismNet

A triangular prism is a prism composed of two triangular bases and three rectangular sides. It is a pentahedron. It is implemented in the Wolfram Language as PolyhedronData["TriangularPrism"].

TriangularPrismNets

The triangular prism has nine distinct nets, as illustrated above.

The regular right triangular prism of unit edge length has surface area and volume

S=1/2(6+sqrt(3))
(1)
V=1/4sqrt(3).
(2)

The regular right triangular prism is a space-filling polyhedron.


See also

Augmented Triangular Prism, Biaugmented Triangular Prism, Prism

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Cite this as:

Weisstein, Eric W. "Triangular Prism." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangularPrism.html

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