Impetus describes the kind of force that encourages an action (the impetus behind the project) or the momentum of an action already begun (the meetings only gave impetus to the rumors of a merger).
Materials Needed: The box from the last experiment; a ruler that measures centimeters. Procedure: Measure each side of the box in centimeters. Use the formula for the volume of a box shaped object (V = L x W x H ) to calculate the volume of this box in cubic centimeters. What Happened: Each side was 10 cm long. When you plug the numbers into the formula and do the math, you get:
Volume conversion calculator for metric, US customary (both liquid and dry), imperial and several commonly used volume units of other measurement systems. In metric system, the base unit of volume was litre (American spelling is liter) and accepted in SI (International system of units) although it's a non SI unit. The base unit of volume in SI is cubic metre (meter).