Graduated Measuring Cup

Graduated Measuring Cup

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Simple Graduated Cylinder - With A Twist! To Make It Easier To Label, This Is A Graduated Cylinder Within A Tower. Has Pouring Spouts On Both Sides, To Accommodate Left-Headed Or Right-Handed People. This Started Out As A Math Exercise: Determine The Heights Of Various Cylinders To Hold Different Volumes. Developing In Ml Is Easy: Each Ml Of Volume Fits In 1 Cm^3. 1 Cm = 10 Mm, So 1 Cm^3 = 1000 Mm^3. To Convert To Ounces, You Need To Know That 1 Fluid Ounce = 29.574 Ml. For A Cylinder, The Volume Is Base * Height. The Area Of The Base Is Pi * (R^2). To Fit On A Small Footpring Printer (I Use A Monoprice Select Mini) With Maximum X, Y, And Z Of 120 Mm, I Decided That I Would Create A Cylinder Of The Appropriate Radius To That Each 10Mm In Height Equaled 1 Ounce. So, V= Pi * (R^2) Rearranging The Equation To Solve For R: Sqrt(V/Pi) = R If Volume = 29.574, Then R = Sqrt(29.574/Pi) R = Sqrt(29.574/3.1416) R= Sqrt(9.4137) R = 3.068 Since R= 3.068, Then The Diameter Of The Base = 2*R = 6.136 Cm 6.136 Cm = 61.36 Mm

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