Section 6.3 – Prisms

Prism – a polyhedron that consists of a polygonal region and its translated image on a parallel plane, with quadrilateral faces connecting corresponding edges.

A prism is named by the shape of its base.

Triangular Prism Rectangular Prism Pentagonal Prism Hexagonal Prism

The faces formed by the polygonal region and its image are each called a base of the prism.

The remaining faces, which are quadrilaterals, are called lateral faces of the prism.

The edges of the lateral faces that are not edges of either base are called the lateral edges of the prism.

Right Prism Oblique Prism

- A prism in which all of the lateral - has at least one non-rectangular

faces are rectangles lateral face

A diagonal of a polyhedron is a segment whose endpoints are vertices of two different faces of the polyhedron

Diagonal of a Right Rectangular Prism

where the prism has the dimensions length x width x height

You can also use the Pythagorean Theorem two times………..like we did before.