ParallelepipedA Three-dimensional geometric body.

Presented by María Alejandra Fernández M.

Parallelepiped Definition:

A parallelepiped is a polyhedron with six faces, each a parallelogram and each being parallel to the opposite face. Parallelepipeds are a subclass

of the prismatoids.

Parallelepiped

Description:1. Has three sets of four parallel edges; the edges

within each set are of equal length.2. Has eight vertexes.

Edges

Vertex

Parallelepiped Classification:

The Cuboid, also called a rectangular parallelepiped, is a parallelepiped in which all sides are rectangles and perpendicular to each other.

The Cube is a cuboid in which all sides are square.

The Rhombohedron is a parallelepiped in which all sides are rhombus.

Parallelepiped

Parallelepiped vs. tetrahedron:

1. Comparison: The Parallelepiped and the Tetrahedron are polyhedrons.

2. Contrast: The Tetrahedron has four triangular faces, three less that

the Parallelepiped, and the faces of a tetrahedron are triangles. Also the Tetrahedron has less edges (6) and less vertexes (4).

The tetrahedron is, in number, half of faces, edges and

vertexes which have a Parallelepiped.

Parallelepiped

The world is full of geometric shapes, and as shown in this initial presentation, we can only describe it

using these forms.

The parallelepiped is one of the three-dimensional geometric bodies that we find most often in our environment and its various types

are an important part of the mathematical study. For this importance that has the parallelepiped, I

decide to study it in this presentation.

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