Questions tagged [volume]

For questions related to volume, the amount of space that a substance or object occupies.

Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space occupied by a liquid, solid, or gas.

Common units used to express volume include liters, cubic meters, gallons, milliliters, teaspoons, and ounces, though many other units exist.

Volume vs. Mass

Volume is the amount of space occupied by a substance, while mass is the amount of matter it contains. The amount of mass per unit of volume is a sample's density.

Capacity in Relation to Volume

Capacity is the measure of the content of a vessel that holds liquids, grains, or other materials that take the shape of the container. Capacity is not necessarily the same as volume. It is always the interior volume of the vessel. Units of capacity include the liter, pint, and gallon, while the unit of volume (SI) is derived from a unit of length.

In differential geometry, a branch of mathematics, a volume form on a differentiable manifold is a differential form of top degree (i.e., whose degree is equal to the dimension of the manifold) that is nowhere equal to zero. A manifold has a volume form if and only if it is orientable. An orientable manifold has infinitely many volume forms, since multiplying a volume form by a non-vanishing function yields another volume form. On non-orientable manifolds, one may instead define the weaker notion of a density. Integrating the volume form gives the volume of the manifold according to that form.

In thermodynamics, the volume of a system is an important extensive parameter for describing its thermodynamic state. The specific volume, an intensive property, is the system's volume per unit of mass. Volume is a function of state and is interdependent with other thermodynamic properties such as pressure and temperature. For example, volume is related to the pressure and temperature of an ideal gas by the ideal gas law.

Reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume

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How to calculate atypical object volume

I am not a mathematician but a simple programmer and came across a situation where I have to calculate different kinds of object volume. There is no specific type of object and i found that there are dozen of formulas to calculate volume like Cube…
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A silver cube has edge lenghts of 5 cm each. A stamp mark "800" indicates that...

the cube is made of 800/1000 pure silver. Assume that silver has a density of 10.5 g/cm3 and a price of 0.68Euro/g. Calculate the value of the silver partion? Haven't studied math since 15 years so I'd appreciate if someone could explain this…
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How much weight can a floating vessel carry before submerging?

Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/friday-flood-new-brunswick-2018-1.4647979 Is there a way to calculate how much weight a vessel can carry (in fresh water) before it submerges? Assumptions: The water is not disturbed (no waves or…
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Any applicable approach for the solution

Water flows through circular pipe of crossection area 6.16cm² at uniform speed of 10cm/sec.At 6.00am,water starts flowing through into empty rectangular tank of base area 3m². If the tank is 1.2m high and has a hole at the bottom which water leaks…
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Volume using Shell Method

I know that this integral was done using Shell Method ;however ,I don't understand the highlighted part.Why is 1 subtracted from y?
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Find the volume of the region above the cone $ z=\sqrt{x^2+y^2} $ and below the paraboloid $ z=2-x^2-y^2 $ .

Find the volume of the region above the Cone $ z=\sqrt{x^2+y^2} $ and below the Paraboloid $ z=2-x^2-y^2 $ . The options are (i) $\frac{13 \pi}{6}$, (ii) $\frac{7 \pi}{3}$, (iii) $\frac{13 \pi}{3}$, (iv) $4 \pi$ Answers: The intersections of the…
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Consider the volume integral over the solid

Consider the volume integral over the solid $ \ S \ $ given by $ \ \int_{-1}^{1} \int_{-\sqrt{1-x^{2}}}^{\sqrt{1-x^{2}}}\int_{z=\sqrt{x^{2}+y^{2}}}^{1} dzdydx $. Identify the Solid $ \ S \ $. $$ $$ I thought $ S $ is not a single solid but…
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How do you calculate the volume of a pyramid without the height?

I was solving a problem, and I was able to get to here, which was where I got stuck: Original Problem: If it isn't possible, here is the original problem: Points $A, B$ and $C$ lie on Sphere $O$ with radius 20. If $AB=13, BC=14$, and $AC=15$, what…
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Calculate volume of wooden logs by top and bottom perimeter length and total length

I bough wooden logs (not the chocks, sorry) and want to check the total volume of wood (m³). I measured top perimeter length (circumference), bottom perimeter length and length of the even log. The log section isn't always looks like a perfect…
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What is the volume of this octahedron?

Can anyone help me with his problem? To me, this is a hard problem. What is the volume, in cubic centimeters, of a regular octahedron whose vertices are the centers of the faces of a cube whose edge measures 6 cm?
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Finding height of a pyramid , thus finding the volume

The picture below shows a pyramid PQRT is cut from a corner of a cube whose side is 16cm. If MP = DQ = 9 cm and BR = 8cm , find the volume of the pyramid PQRT I found that PQ = 9.89949 cm PR = 10.63 cm QR = 10.63 cm And area PQR = 46.6 cm^2…
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Paradox of a unit 2 height cylinder

The surface area of a cylinder of height 2 units is $2\pi r^2 + 2\pi rh,$ which is greater than its volume $V = \pi r^2h=2\pi r^2$. Am I missing something? This is so weird!
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How to find volume of a truncated cone by slant height

If i know base radius and slant height then how i can find the volume of a truncated cone.I do some research but not able to find out how exactly these two can be used to find volume.http://www.vitutor.com/geometry/solid/truncated_cone.html This…
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Minimum surface of a cone

Imagine, I choose $a$ as the volume of the cone. Find an expression with $a$ as variabele for the minimum surface. My Work: $$\text{Volume}=\frac{\pi r^2h}{3}=a\to r=\sqrt{\frac{3a}{\pi h}}$$ $$\text{Surface Cone}=\pi r^2+\pi…
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How to calculate the height of a cone at particular volume?

The equation for the volume of a cone is $\frac{1}{3}\pi r^2h$ starting from the base. However, I wanna calculate the height of the cone for a particular volume from the tip of the cone. Could you please help me with a formula? Thanks! Update: In…