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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.

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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

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]

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