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The formulas for the volumes of pyramids and cones are strangely similar. Actually, they're exactly the same: just multiply 1/3 by the base area by...
Volume is crucial to our lives. It determines the amount of food we eat, the amount of fluid we drink, and hydraulics, just to to name a few. One o...
ACT Math: Plane Geometry Drill 3, Problem 2. Can you find the volume of this right circular cylinder?
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Volume is crucial to our lives. It determines the amount of food we eat, the amount of fluid we drink, and hydraulics, just to to name a few. One of these things might not sound like the others, but that's just how volume rolls. It comes with being a condition of having matter, we guess.
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- 00:04
volume a'la shmoop.. we're about to go three dimensional
- 00:07
ladies and gentlemen you may now put on your special glasses we assume you've [Theatre curtains open and 3D glasses appear]
- 00:12
already got area under your belt.. now it's time to add some depth to the mix..
- 00:17
let's say we want to find the volume of a cuboid or a three-dimensional
- 00:21
rectangle for this shape, we can multiply length x height x depth to find the volume
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- 00:28
which allows us to determine its capacity another way to think of [A car appears outside a circus tent]
- 00:32
capacity is the amount of space in an object...Ok so we've got a cuboid which is
- 00:39
three units long 5 units wide and 10 units deep, well 3 times 5 times 10 is
- 00:45
150 so this figure has a volume of 150 cubic whatever you call its.. we refer to [A cuboid and a boy appears shrugging his shoulders]
- 00:53
these units as cubic because you could fit a bunch of cubes in there if you
- 00:57
wanted to. Understanding volume in general and how it works comes in handy [A green man riding a unicorn]
- 01:01
in many real-world professions, for example liquid is always measured in
- 01:05
volume which means that determining how much medicine to give a patient is [Person administering a little girl medicine]
- 01:09
essentially a volume calculation doctors are thankfully into specifics, volume is
- 01:15
also big when it comes to construction unless you like it when you're doing [A digger moving lots of soil]
- 01:19
system explodes.. And don't even try cooking something without using volume you're in
- 01:24
trouble if you're following a recipe that calls for 8 square inches of olive [A woman holding a large pack of butter and a woman with a bottle of olive oil and measuring tape]
- 01:27
oil so, let volume be your new friend accept it embrace it, just don't squeeze too
- 01:33
hard or you can shatter the measuring cup [Woman squeezes measuring cup and it shatters]
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