In one scene in the movie The Godfather II,

a solid gold phone is passed around a large

table for everyone to see. Suppose the volume

of gold in the phone were equal to the volume

of a 10-centimeter cube of gold. The density

of gold is 19,300 kg/m3

.

Could such a phone be casually passed

around a table from hand to hand? What

is the weight of the phone? 1 kg of mass is

about 2.2 lb

Question

Cristopher Kaiser

Chemistry

12 April, 10:09

In one scene in the movie The Godfather II,

a solid gold phone is passed around a large

table for everyone to see. Suppose the volume

of gold in the phone were equal to the volume

of a 10-centimeter cube of gold. The density

of gold is 19,300 kg/m3

.

Could such a phone be casually passed

around a table from hand to hand? What

is the weight of the phone? 1 kg of mass is

about 2.2 lb

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Answers (1)

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Marcus · Answer 1

10 cm in a cube to find volume is 10 by 10 by 10

1000 cm cubed

10 cm is 0.1 m

0.1 times 0.1 times 0.1 is 0.001 metres cubed

19,300 times 0.001 is

19.3 kg

approximately 193newtons

yes it could be passed around casually