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 Much water can a tank hold?

At Sonia’s house there are two water tanks. One tank can hold $500$ litres more than the smaller tank. When the smaller tank is $2/3$ full it holds as much water as half the larger tank. What is the capacity of the largest tank?
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Volume of a cut paraboloid

I have a cut paraboloid made from parabola $y(x)=c+x-ax^2$ and $x = 0$ line. How do I compute volume of this cut paraboloid? I researched on Wolfram. see formula 16 and 17
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Milliliters of sulphuric acid used to prepare an acid

How many ml of 95% w/w sulphuric acid having a specific gravity of 1.820 should be used in preparing 2 liters of 10% w/v acid? The answer is 115.67 ml of 95% I would like to know the solution. Thanks!
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What is the volume enclosed by the paraboloid $ z=x^{2}+y^{2}$ and the plane $z=10 $?

I want calculate the volume enclosed by the paraboloid $ z=x^{2}+y^{2}$ and the plane $z=10,$ using double integral in cartesian coordinate system. My approach: Putting $ \ z=10 \ $, we get the circle $ \ x^{2}+y^{2}=10 .$ Then the volume $$V=…
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Finding volume of a box

You are required to construct an open box from a paper by cutting four squared from the corners of the paper. The rectangular piece of paper is 5cm long and 3cm wide. What should be the length of the sides of such four (identical) squares that will…
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volume of a curved cone with ellipse base

I wish to calculate the volume of this special cone ! The base is an ellipse ellipse of semi-major a and semi-minor b Thanks !
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Find the volume bounded by $4x^2+y^2=4z$ and $z=2$

from 2 equations we can get $$ 4x^2+y^2=8 $$ and it should be an ellipse which is $$ \frac{x^2}{2}+\frac{y^2}{8}=1. $$ I am stuck here because I can't find $r$. I searched online it involves $$ u^2+v^2=1. $$ I am confused and need some…
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Gas compression

I have a meter cubed volume of gas, what formulae do I need to calculate the space required for the gas when compressed at a variable psi/bar. Not important at this time, but how would I allow for different densities of gas? Many thanks.
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Rate of water flow in a given container

The containers in the picture has height h cm . Their other dimensions are shown . The containers are being filled to the brim with water which flows into each one at the same constant rate . It takes 5mins for the water to reach a depth of $h/2$…
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What is the maximum number of rectangular blocks

What is a simple way to solve this problem? I can do this problem by drawing the large block and trying small blocks, but very time consuming. I assume there must be a wise way to try the small blocks. What is the maximum number of rectangular…
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Volume of a given solid?

Passed by a question now, need a volume of a given solid but I can't understand how to draw such a solid. The region is given by : $S=\{(x,y,z)\in \mathbb{R}^3 : |x| + 2|y| \le 1-z^2\}.$ Any suggestion?
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Water Volume Fill and Drain

I have a pump that will (according to the instructions) pump $450$ litres of water per minute. Water is pumped into a box that can hold $85$ litres. This box has $3 \times 1.5$ inch holes in a row on one side, near the bottom of the box. One on the…
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Real life application math questions involving mass,volume,density

An Oil tank has height of $2.55 m$ , radius of $1.05 m$, mass of $650 kg$. Safety information given tells us that the tank can be filled to a maximum of $90\%$ of its total volume. The Oil tank can be modelled as a cylinder with a hemisphere on the…
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Volume of tanks and speed of water flow

An open rectangular tank of depth $2.4$m has a horizontal base of length $3.8$ m and breadth $2.1$m. A solid metal cylinder of volume $0.865m^3$ rests with its curbed surface on base in the tank . $6400$ litres of water is poured into the tank at…
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Volumes by Slicing: why not y-axis?

Find the volume of the solid generated by revolving the region bounded by the graphs of y = x^2 and y = 4x − x about the line y = 6. We should calculate it according to this integral ∫[(6-x^2)^2-(6-(4x-x^2))^2] dx. Why do we integrate it for x-axis…
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