IJPAM: Volume 94, No. 5 (2014)

A C$_{60}$ FULLERENE MODEL AND SEPAK TAKRAW BALLS

Yutaka Nishiyama
Department of Business Information
Faculty of Information Management
Osaka University of Economics
2, Osumi Higashiyodogawa Osaka, 533-8533, JAPAN


Abstract. In the first half of this paper, we solve the problem of how many different sepak takraw ball patterns can be made from six polypropylene bands of different colors. An important point here is chirality. In the paper's second half, we adopt a mathematical point of view to discuss the positions of the 60 carbon atoms and single and double bonds in C$_{60}$ fullerene, which has the shape of a truncated icosahedron.

Received: February 22, 2014

AMS Subject Classification: 51M05, 92E10, 00A09

Key Words and Phrases: C$_{60}$ fullerenes, truncated icosahedron, sepak takraw ball, chirality, single bond, double bond

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DOI: 10.12732/ijpam.v94i5.4 How to cite this paper?

Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN printed version: 1311-8080
ISSN on-line version: 1314-3395
Year: 2014
Volume: 94
Issue: 5
Pages: 669 - 688


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