Main entry:

Laycock, Mary.

Title & Author:

Bucky for beginners : synergetic geometry / Mary Laycock.

Publication:

Hayward, Calif. : Activity Resources Co., ©1984.

Description:

64 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 62).
Make a dome -- What is a system? -- How can you fold a tetra? -- What is the volume in tetra units? -- What is the volume of a cube? -- Stellate an octahedron; What do you create? -- What is the volume of a two frequency tetra? -- How many spheres pack around a central sphere? -- What is the volume of the vector equilibrium? -- Can "bow ties" make a vector equilibrium? -- Is 1 and 1 = 4? When? -- Is 2 and 2 = 8? When? -- Can you make a cube rigid? -- How do gases, solids, and liquids move? -- "Unzip" a tetrahelix; What does it form? -- What can a jitterbug form? _- How can spheres form a tetra? -- Can you solve the tetra puzzle? -- How can you grow hexagonal numbers? -- Tetrahedral frequency and hex numbers -- How does a cube relate to a vector equilibrium? -- How does a tetra relate to an octa? -- Start with an octa; what do you get? -- Start with an icosahedron; What do you get? -- Start with a dodecahedron; What do you get? -- Can three great circles fold an octahedron? -- What do pentagonal "bow ties" create? -- What is angular topology? -- What is an octal truss? -- Make a model of spaceship Earth!

ISBN:

0918932823
9780918932822

Subject:

Polyhedra Problems, exercises, etc.
Polyèdres Problèmes et exercices.
Polyhedra.

Form/genre:

exercise books.
Problems and exercises.
Problèmes et exercices.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 93439
Call No.: ID:93-B879
Status: Available