Popcorn weight problem??!

underpants

so while contemplating life I stumbled onto a thought which was....

If I took my weight in popcorn, then how much space would the popcorn fill?

Lets just say I weigh 10 stone, for simplistic reasons (if that does actually make it easier!)

Then how much space would the popcorn (popped & weighing 10 stone) occupy???!

Any ideas?

PurpleBerry

I'd like to make fun of you for having enough time on your hands to start this topic but I can't really if I have enough time on my hands to reply.

Mint Sauce

just imagine 10 stone in weight of unpopped popcorn, then pop it

00112984

With melted butter or without?

Turd Ferguson

It would take up double the space of 5 stone weight of popcorn.....duh

seamus

The weight of one popcorn kernel is around 0.33 grams.

10 stone ~= 63.65kg.
Therefore there are 63650/0.33 ~= 192,879 popcorn kernels in 63.65kg.

Assuming that each popped kernel has an average radius of 1cm, then the volume of each kernel is 3.14*0.0001 = 0.000314m^3

So the total volume of all kernels would be 60.564 cubic metres.

That would be a box roughly 1m x 30m x 2m, a very large shipping crate or a big truck trailer, I guess.

Was that worth asking? It wasn't worth working out, I can tell you.

00112984

seamus wrote: »

The weight of one popcorn kernel is around 0.33 grams.

10 stone ~= 63.65kg.
Therefore there are 63650/0.33 ~= 192,879 popcorn kernels in 63.65kg.

Assuming that each popped kernel has an average radius of 1cm, then the volume of each kernel is 3.14*0.01 = 0.0314m^3

So the total volume of all kernels would be 6056.4 cubic metres.

That would be a building roughly 10m x 30m x 20m, a standard-ish 3-story office building, I guess.

Was that worth asking? It wasn't worth working out, I can tell you.

Or you could take all the popped corn and put into a vat of water to see the volume of water it displaces.

Foolproof.

colly10

Radius of 1cm is too much imo, can't believe im replying to this topic, slow day in work

seamus

00112984 wrote: »

Or you could take all the popped corn and put into a vat of water to see the volume of water it displaces.

Foolproof.

In the absence of 200,000 popcorn kernels and a large vat of water, I think I'll stick to the pen and paper.

But even that's not good enough, I got it wrong, by a factor of 100...

minidazzler

00112984 wrote: »

Or you could take all the popped corn and put into a vat of water to see the volume of water it displaces.

Foolproof.

No it's not, because The Popcorn would soak up some of the water.

00112984

minidazzler wrote: »

No it's not, because The Popcorn would soak up some of the water.

Bugger. Gives my "foolproof" a kind of ironic edge, doesn't it?

Plus, poporn isn't very absorbent but would disintegrate in the liquid and just turn to a pulp mush anyway.

Steoob

Step asside, experienced cinema worker here. :P
Well at work we have 20kg bags of maize (kernels) and we go through a bag about every day which makes roughly 10 bin bags worth or popcorn. So 3x20=~10stone, so about 30 bin bags worth. QED

Caoimhín

Some of you really need to get laid/drunk/high/a job.

underpants

Caoimhín wrote: »

Some of you really need to get laid/drunk/high/a job.

would that help solve the problem??