Polyhedron with six faces.
Properties
- The cube is one of the five Platonic solids.
- A cube has 8 vertices, 12 edges and 6 faces.
Formula
- The area A of a regular hexahedron with an edge length of a is:
\(A=6a^{2}\)
- The volume V of a regular hexahedron with an edge length of a is:
\(V=a^{3}\).
Examples
- A cube is a regular hexahedron:
- Examples of irregular hexahedra:
