Platonic solid the inradius "r". That is, The following table lists the various radii of the Platonic solids together with their surface area and volume. The overall size is fixed by taking the edge length, "a", to be equal to 2. The constants "φ" and "ξ" in the above are given by Among the Platonic solids, either the dodecahedron or the icosahedron may be seen as the best approximation to the sphere. The icosahedron has the largest number of faces and the largest dihedral angle, it hugs its inscribed sphere the most tightly, and its surface area to volume ratio is closest
Einstein solid Walther Nernst learned of Einstein's 1906 paper on specific heat, he was so excited that he traveled all the way from Berlin to Zürich to meet with him. The heat capacity of an object at constant volume "V" is defined through the internal energy "U" as formula_3, the temperature of the system, can be found from the entropy To find the entropy consider a solid made of formula_5 atoms, each of which has 3 degrees of freedom. So there are formula_6 quantum harmonic oscillators (hereafter SHOs for "Simple Harmonic Oscillators"). Possible energies of an SHO are given by or, in