Homework

Please do the following assignments by the indicated days.

Homework # 1
Due Friday February 11
Construct accurate models of the five Platonic polyhedria. You may use any material of your choosing.
Homework # 2
Due Monday February 14
Construct models of the following Archimedean polyhedra: Truncated tetrahedron, truncated cube, truncated octahedron, truncated icosahedron, truncated dodecahedron, cuboctahedron, icosidodecahedron.
Homework # 3
Due Friday February 18
Construct models of at least two more Archimedean polyhedra
Homework # 4
Due Monday, February 21
Experiment with Mathematica.
Homework #5
Due Friday, February 25
Write a Mathematica notebook that makes an animated drawing.
Homework #6
Due Monday, February 28
Write Mathematica notebook for a rotating cube
Homework #7
Due Friday, March 4
Adapt your rotating cube Mathematica program so that it draws a rotating tetrahedron.
Homework #8
Due Monday, March 7
Build a three-dimensional model of the hypercube
Homework #9
Due Friday, March 11
Write and debug the Mathematica notebook hypercube.nb
Homework #10
Due Monday, March 14
Modify your hypercube notebook to include color. Experiment with rotating the cube.
Homework #11
Due Friday, March 18

1. Adapt your hypercube notebook so that it also draws the 4-D Octahedron.

2. Provide answers to the following questions: What kind of cells does the 4-D octahedron have (e.g. cubes, tetrahedrons, octahedrons, etc.)? How many cells does it have? How many and what kind of faces? Edges? Verify that Euler's formula holds. Please be prepared to turn in your work.

Homework #12
Due Monday, March 28
Work out coordinates of vertices of the 4-D Simplex. Please write up your solution neatly and explain your reasoning. Write as if I didn't know the answer; your paper should convince me of the validity of your conclusions.
Homework #13
Due Monday, April 4
Adapt your Mathematica program so that it draws a rotating 4-D simplex.
Homework #14
Due Friday, April 8
1. Adapt your Mathematica program so that it draws a rotating 4-D truncated simplex.

2. Find the number of vertices, edges, faces and cells of this object. Verify Euler's Formula holds.
Homework #15
Due Monday, April 11

1. Find the tetrahedron and octahedron cells in your drawing of the deeply truncated 4-D simplex.

2. Determine the numbers of vertices, edges, faces and cells of this object. Verify Euler's Formula holds.

3. Implement this object on the computer.

Homework #16
Due Monday, April 18
Complete your drawing of the 24-cell. Identify the locations of its 24 octahedron cells. Compute the number of vertices, edges, and faces. Be prepared to turn in your work.
Homework #17
Due Friday, April 22
Create a computer-animated image of the 24-cell.
Homework #18
Due Monday, April 25
You have created images of the truncated 4-D simplex, the deeply truncated 4-D simplex, and the deeply truncated 4-D octahedron. Create another image (still or computer animated) of one other truncated polyhedron of your choosing. Consider truncating the hypercube or the 24-cell.