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Post by retsard on Feb 2, 2006 21:12:03 GMT 8
Guys what would be the best answer if you were asked this:
"What is the significance of measuring volume(as in water volume)?"
That might sound ridiculous, funny, stupid, or anything you may want to call it but please help me answer this one.
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Post by janix on Feb 2, 2006 21:22:35 GMT 8
so you will know the volume of the water.... you can also measure the volum of objects through displacement.... ting!!!! .02
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Post by retsard on Feb 2, 2006 21:24:53 GMT 8
"so you will know the volume of the water". That was also my answer hehe.
But the question is what is the significance of measuring the volume of water???
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Post by janix on Feb 2, 2006 21:32:54 GMT 8
as i said... you could know the volume of other objects.... i mean the irregularly shaped objects.....
what is this for ba?
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Post by Konan on Feb 2, 2006 21:32:56 GMT 8
its equal the mass of the object that was dropped in, remember Archimedes? Eureka!!!! : ) heheh
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Post by retsard on Feb 2, 2006 21:36:51 GMT 8
For me sister for her so called "research work". Garrrr!
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Post by Konan on Feb 2, 2006 21:40:29 GMT 8
he was given kasi a task to know if the gold content of the crown which has an irregular shape kaya nag oblation run pa nga sya sa tuwa ng na solve nya problema
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Post by Poseur on Feb 3, 2006 2:23:11 GMT 8
what is the significance? WTF? so when u buy your 6-pack u know exactly how much beer you have in your hand. Duh!
replace beer with H2O.
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Post by anthrax76 on Feb 3, 2006 10:08:43 GMT 8
i can't add any more to the answers above but...here goes my take, he he he if i give you watermelon, asked you to get the volume. you can compute all the curves, flat sides, circumference. but it will take you a while. if you dipped it in water and measured the volume of the water. then you can get more or less the exact volume of the watermelon. now, like stated above. imagine getting the volume of an irregularly shaped object. crown, car engine, your own body.
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Post by marcs on Feb 3, 2006 10:33:00 GMT 8
did you mean what is the signifance of Archimedes' experiment? of displacing water in order to determine the volume? coz the signifance of simply 'measuring volume' depends on why you want to measure it in the first place. Getting back to Archimedes, he did this experiement to measure the volume of the crown, not the mass. This is because the king though na dine-dengoy sya nung smith. he suspected that silver was being added to the golden crown. of course, one way to solve this was to determine the density of the crown, and therefore you needed to measure Mass and Volume to calculate the Density. Mass is no problem. Any scale will do. But calculating the volume was a different thing. Thus, he sunk it in water. the amount of water displaced is exactly the same volume as the crown. and voila! patay kang jeweler ka! Ergo, as antrhax mentioned, this may be a good crude methodology to measure your body density. Denser body means more lean mass, less dense means more body fat Knowledge Power!
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Post by Ben Dover on Feb 3, 2006 11:18:31 GMT 8
patay na nga si ernie baron ( ernie baron is gone indeed )
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Post by warlock^_^ on Feb 3, 2006 13:06:08 GMT 8
OK I'll bite... interesting answers you got there guys.
"What is the significance of measuring volume?"
Well primarily its significant since its the 3-dimensional means of measurement. Not only its the only method measurement for liquids & gas but determines the bulk of the solids.
i.e. you cant measure water by length alone.... as well as gas, other than by measuring the weight. And weight is not a dimensional measurement. If you notice in our daily lives we procure liquid stuff by volumetric quantity. As of stuff in gaseous state (i.e. LPG) its weight, since gas is compressible.
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