Volume of a car
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the volume of the contents of the bottles? or to fill up the car with bottles? if you go to this website they have interior dimensions of the car: http://autos.yahoo.com/2010_hyundai_sonata_gls-specs/
you just have to interpret it all and come up with a volume
you just have to interpret it all and come up with a volume
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Are the empty bottles going into the passenger compartment only?
The number of bottles may vary significantly, dependent upon how efficiently the bottles are "packed".
Yes, it would only be in the passenger compartment.
Pretend I rolled a window and randomly dumped in empty water bottles until they hit the ceiling.
This is what I need to know. Come on boys!!!!
This is what I'm thinking. Volume of the car passenger compartment is about 105 cubic feet = about 3,000 litres, which is about 6,000 water bottles.
But this is clearly wayyyyy to much. I filled up a large black garbage bag with bottles and it was full at about 120 bottles, which is like 50 bags. 50 bags takes up an entire room, so this is clearly too much. I'm thinking 1000 bottles should do the trick.
Pretend I rolled a window and randomly dumped in empty water bottles until they hit the ceiling.
This is what I need to know. Come on boys!!!!
This is what I'm thinking. Volume of the car passenger compartment is about 105 cubic feet = about 3,000 litres, which is about 6,000 water bottles.
But this is clearly wayyyyy to much. I filled up a large black garbage bag with bottles and it was full at about 120 bottles, which is like 50 bags. 50 bags takes up an entire room, so this is clearly too much. I'm thinking 1000 bottles should do the trick.
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Ovation said:
Inside volume of a small car - without the car-seats - would be about 4' x 4' x 4' (~64 cft)
Ovation said:
All,
regardless of the supposed liquid volume of the passengers' space, you need to distinguish
between the liquid volume of bottles (empty or not) and just the absolute volume of
liquid that would fill the passenger compartment. The former volume is "significantly"
less than the latter because of all of those gaps of space among the bottles (empty or not).
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Ovation said:
The yahoo link above says the compartment is 105 cubic feet[/quote]
That's the total air-space. Now subtract dash-board, steering wheel, seat-hardware......
Ovation said:
One of the main (composite) versions I last read was asking how many empty 500-mL bottles can fit
into the passenger part of a car, if the volume of the passenger area is about 105 cubic feet.
Suppose you were talking about just the volume, but not taking into account that there are fewer
empty bottles needed to occupy those cubic feet (or the equivalent in liters).
If you look at the number of liters contained in 105 cubic feet, it is about 105(28.316) liters, because 1 cubic foot is
about 28.316 liters (looked up from the Internet). This is about 2,973 liters, but because 500 mL bottles are being
used, then it is twice that number, or about 5,946 500-mL bottles.
**But** this represents the number of bottles to be packed \(\displaystyle if \ there \ were \ no \ spaces \ between \ bottles.\)
How much the of the total of the cubic feet of volume (or the equivalent in liquid volume) between/among the
bottles and the interior sides, bottom, and the ceiling of the car is \(\displaystyle unknown.\)
The actual number of 500-mL bottles, then, is fewer than 5,946 bottles, but by how much?