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1. How many apples can you put into a box in the following dimensions:
Width: 1.25 meters
Length: 3 meters
Hight: 2.1 meters
2. Close packing of spheres
3. All I could find is the efficiency of close packing of spheres in face-centered cubic, which is 0.74048.
Is there an equation that takes into consideration the radius (I measured a few apples and it's about 3-4 cm) of the spheres (or the distance between the centers of two spheres, to be more precise) and the volume of the box to give the maximal number of spheres in the box?
Can I use all of that considering the fact that apples are not regular spheres? Am I thinking in the right direction?
I'm sorry if all of this sounds a bit silly, I come from a completely different walk of life and this is my only physics course.
Thanks for helping :)
Width: 1.25 meters
Length: 3 meters
Hight: 2.1 meters
2. Close packing of spheres
3. All I could find is the efficiency of close packing of spheres in face-centered cubic, which is 0.74048.
Is there an equation that takes into consideration the radius (I measured a few apples and it's about 3-4 cm) of the spheres (or the distance between the centers of two spheres, to be more precise) and the volume of the box to give the maximal number of spheres in the box?
Can I use all of that considering the fact that apples are not regular spheres? Am I thinking in the right direction?
I'm sorry if all of this sounds a bit silly, I come from a completely different walk of life and this is my only physics course.
Thanks for helping :)