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- Due on Jul. 23, 2009
- Asked on Jul 23, 2009 at 9:51:37PM
Q:A drug manufacturing company wants to manufacture a capsule that contains a spherical pill inside. The diameter of the pill is 4mm and the capsule is cylindrical, with hemispheres on either end. The length of the capsule between the two hemispheres is 10mm.
Describe how we could find the exact volume the capsule will hold, excluding the volume of the pill.
What is the value that you get from your calculation?
Why is it important for us to be able to determine the exact volume of that capsule?
The answer that I have, 125.663 is the volume of the cylinder. Now I need the volume of the capsule excluding the pill. The pill is a sphere of radius of 2. And the capsule is the cylinder plus the two ends which are two hemisphere or one sphere with radius 2. Now, without calculating the volume of sphere, you can get the volume of capsule excluding the volume of the pill. Please give it another try.
Volume of capsule = 125.6637 mm^3
Volume of pill = 12.4733
Volume of capsule excluding the pill will be 125.6637 - 12.4733 = 113.1904
Please help I am not sure what my professor wants here.
