3 DIMENSIONAL SHAPES 2

WEEK  5

3 DIMENSIONAL SHAPES

A prism is solid with a uniform cross-section. The top and bottom faces are the same. Cubes,

cuboids and cylinders are prisms.

Triangular prism

In geometry, a triangular prism is a three-sided prism; it is a polyhedron made of a triangular base, a translated copy, and 3 faces joining corresponding sides. A right triangular prism has rectangular sides, otherwise, it is oblique. A uniform triangular prism is a right triangular prism with equilateral bases and square sides.

(Square prism)

Cube

A square prism is a three-dimensional shape cuboid figure whose bases are squares. The opposite sides and angles are congruent to each other. In the given figure, the bases of the prism are square, and…