Tetra Math

[Twstdkittie]

Originally Posted by sojouner06

ok, it is 6 inches, but i am still baffaled! how can the formula i used be wrong???? what could be an outside influence to change the height so drastically...

Because the angle at the top of the small tetras isn't big enough to completely go over the angle on the big one.

The tetrahedral arangement of carbon atoms is what gives diamond the properties of density, hardness, and optical index of refraction(sparkle).

A tetrahedron can be made from an equilateral triangle (All angles 60 degrees)
If you start with a triangle and then bisect eact side, You will have 4 triangles. By folding each face up, you will have a tetrahedron. You can see how that even as a solid shape these can pack together perfectly. In crystals this usually means high density, and isotropic ( the same in all directions) properties.

[Pingponger17]

I haven't seen two actually stacked so I don't know for sure how much of a raise each tetra adds. But in the rules i believe it said that if a tetra is stacked improperly and has more than 6 inches then it isn't considered to be stacked. So i believe that it raises less than 6 inches to leave a little margin for error.

[sojouner06]

the tetra is stacked at 6 inches in the home made tetra's but i think there is more equilibriam in the degrees for comp. so it could be lower

[KORN_lover_2007]

I was told by one of our mentors who went to the kickoff that it is raised six inches per tetra stacked.