ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Area and Volume Videos 38 videos
Los cubos de hielo no son ruidosos generalmente...pero tienen un volumen de tipo diferente. Este video te enseñará cómo encontrar el volumen de...
Haven't you always wondered how much cardboard it takes to encase a trunk warmer for your pet elephant?
Volume 11027 Views
Share It!
Description:
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.
Transcript
- 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
Full Transcript
- 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]
Related Videos
Haven't you always wondered how much cardboard it takes to encase a trunk warmer for your pet elephant?
Want to figure out the area and perimeter of irregular shapes? Break them down into regular shapes. For example, a flower can be broken down into s...
It's one thing when all those shapes are sitting flat on the page. But when they start popping out and invading our personal space bubble, we get a...
Does thinking about 3D Geometry get you bent out of shape? Never fear! Watch this video and figure out some fun new shapes to bend back into. We're...
ACT Math: Plane Geometry Drill 3, Problem 5. How long would it take for the wheel to make two rotations?