Archive for the ‘Volume’ Category
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
It's been a long time since I posted, but I got an idea the other day and my mind wouldn't let it go until I did the math. With 200,000 gallons of oil per day spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP oil rig explosion, how could I ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Despite findings that it's a silly recommendation there are still people who suggest that you drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day for weight loss or colon health or proper hydration.
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One of the trains of thought I read on this is that people lose 10 cups of water a ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Friday's column, where we figured out the weight of the air inside an airhead, made me think on the topic of the volume of a skull and what else could fit in there besides 17 featherweights of air. Fourteen-hundred cubic centimeters of volume in a human skull, 1.4 liters, ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
In past posts, I've talked about how heavy things are, but what about how light they are?
Over the Memorial Day Weekend, my mom and stepdad visited to celebrate her birthday, and as I was describing this little experiment in blogging to her, she suggested I use "light as a feather" ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Over the past few days, friends have been asking me "have you seen this measuring cup?" They were all abuzz about this new gag measuring cup that featured markings on it for things like "20,000 grains of rice" or "volume of half a human brain." I knew I ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
In the "Molecules of Caffeine" post, I calculated the number of caffeine molecules in a can of Mountain Dew. This lead reader Scott to e-mail me about the concept of parts per billion. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency has set their "action level" for lead in drinking ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Gas stations in the USA have been selling gas at prices ending in 9/10ths of a cent for decades. Depending on who you ask, the practice dates back to the Great Depression or farther, and there are varying reasons given for it. The most often agreed-upon reason for ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
We all know the tongue twister: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?" But not a lot of people know the answer, which is: "it depends."
A peck is not a count, like a dozen. It's a ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
This weekend I pulled out my trusty kitchen scale, a half-cup measure, placed the measure on the scale, zeroed it out, and began spooning in Jello Brand Chocolate Pudding from pudding cups I got in the refrigerated aisle. I wanted to determine the pudding's weight by volume, because I'd ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
I was reading an article about farts in which flatulence expert Dr. Michael D. Levitt (a.k.a. Doctor Fart) was quoted as saying that the average human male farts 110 milliliters of gas.
There's an urban legend about a man who suffocated on his own farts. It states that he farted ...
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