I paired up with Railynn. Once we were told we had to measure and find the volume of something in our world, I made a joke about a finding the volume of a leg. I was thinking of something like a pirate's peg leg, and voiced that. However I felt that idea was absolutely ridiculous and shot that idea down. Dr Drew heard me and said, "How about how many gallons of milk you can fit in your leg?" Which was incredibly odd, by the way, but we decided to do it. Our first plan involved measuring six people's legs and creating the "Idealized Tenth Grade Leg" but eventually we realized that that is weird as heck and it would totally invade the subject's privacy so we decided to just do our own.
The math work was fairly simple once we decided to look at our legs like they were simple cylinders. We measured around the thigh and the calf as well as all the way down the leg, but split the leg at the knee and added the results together. |