Cu Ft

[Unregistered]

I am in the military and moving summer 2006. I have a weight limit of 13,500lbs for my houshold goods. I also have a weight calculator (in the form of a spreadsheet) to determine weight of certain items (i.e. sofa's, desk etc....) It uses Cu Ft of an item to determine approx weight of something. I have found out this sheet is out-dated with some of todays items and want to update it? Any ideas?

[Robert Fogt]

I searched but could not find anything at all.

Is it very far off? You could probably just use it as is since it is just an approximation.

[chinaman]

to convert mass to volume.

unit for mass: kg, lb (pounds), grams
unit for volume: cu ft, cu meter, cu cm, etc...

to convert mass to volume you need density !
density is a ratio of mass per volume. kg/cu m, kg/ cu ft... etc.

example: a ref weighs 30 lb per cu ft. and the total weight of a ref is 300 lb. what is the volume of the ref?

volume = 300 lb / 30 lb per cu ft.
= 10 cu ft