RECTANGULAR PARALLELEPIPED

(CUBOID)
Rectangular Parallelepiped (Cuboid)
A rectangular solid bounded by six rectangular plane faces is called a cuboid or rectangular parallelepiped.
Examples include a match box, a brick, a book. A cuboid has 6 rectangular faces, 12 edges and 8 vertices. All faces of a
cuboid are rectangles, and two opposite faces are equal rectangles.

Properties of a cuboid
Parallel edges of a cuboid are equal in length.
Any two opposite faces of cuboid are equal and parallel rectangles.

Some terms related to a cuboid:

(i) the space enclosed by a cuboid is called its volume.
(ii) the sum of areas of all the six faces of a cuboid is known as its total surface area.
(iii) the four faces which meet the base of a cuboid are called the lateral faces of the cuboid.
(iv) the sum of areas of the four walls of a cuboid is called its lateral surface area.
(v) the face diagonals of the cuboid are the diagonals drawn by joining the vertices on a face of the cuboid.
(vi) the space diagonal (aka interior diagonal or body diagonal) of a cuboid is a line connecting two vertices that are
not on the same face. Space diagonals contrast with face diagonals, which connect vertices on the same face (but
not on the same edge) as each other.