How Many Golf Balls Fit In A School Bus?

Golf balls are small objects, and there are a lot of big, oversized objects in the world.

Sometimes, we get that little itch to learn some random, useless, yet intriguing information. Therefore, you may wonder: How many golf balls fit in a School Bus?

In this article, we will tell you exactly how many golf balls fit in a School Bus.

How Many Golf Balls Fit In A School Bus?

You could fit 496783 golf balls in a School Bus, assuming you fill the bus with efficient packing of golf balls, such as with a cannonball arrangement. In other words, you could fit nearly 500,000 golf balls in a School Bus.

Golf balls are tiny, and school buses are big, so we already know we will be able to fit many golf balls.

This means that if we end up with a small number of balls, say a couple hundred or thousand, then there must be a mistake.

To calculate how many golf balls can fit in a school bus, we will make the following assumptions:

-We are filling a regular-sized School Bus, with no seats inside of it. If you would like to know the answer with seats, take away 20% from the final result, or however many percent you expect the seats to take away from the school bus volume.

-Golf balls can be packed in cannonball arrangement to save a bit of lost space due to the golf balls not being cubic. The packing coefficient used is 0.74. No golf balls will be cut, deformed, or transformed to save packing space.

With these assumptions clearly defined, we can start by defining the dimensions of a golf ball:

Golf ball Diameter = 1.68 inches = 0.14 ft

Golf ball Radius = 0.14/2 = 0.07 ft

Golf Ball Volume = (4/3)*pi*0.07^3 = 0.00143 cubic ft

Next, we can define the dimensions of the school bus we are filling with golf balls. There is data available with typical school bus dimensions, and we can calculate the volume from those dimensions:

School Bus typical dimensions: 20ft x 8ft x 6ft

School Bus Volume = 20*8*6 = 960 cubic ft

Down below, you can see a quick graphic explaining the packing coefficient used:

As you can see above, the golf balls can be assembled in cannonball fashion (second arrangement on diagram) when stacked as to save vertical space between the golf balls.

This arrangement of golf balls allows you to save some space that you would otherwise lose if you treated the golf balls as cubes with the same diameter. Golf balls and spheres alike do not occupy the “corners” in a virtual cube with the same diameter as them.

The golf ball cannonball packing coefficient is defined as follows:

Golf ball cannonball packing coefficient = sqrt(2)/2 = 0.74

With all of these elements defined, we can calculate the number of golf balls that we can fit in a School Bus:

Number of golf balls = (School Bus Volume*packing coefficient) / (golf ball volume)

Number of golf balls = (960*0.74)/0.00143

Number of golf balls = 496783.21678 = 496783 full golf balls

We obtain the result of 496783.21678 golf balls being able to fit on a School Bus, but we need to round down to 496783 since we do not want to cut the golf balls.

In the end, you can fit 496783 golf balls on a School Bus. In other words, you could fit nearly 500,000 golf balls in a School Bus.

Conclusion

There you go! After reading this article, you now know how many golf balls fit in a School Bus.

It is a huge number that may quite possibly have surprised you. Make your friends guess how many golf balls would fit!

Do you want to know how many golf balls would fit in other objects? Let us know which objects in the comments down below!

How Many Golf Balls Fit In A School Bus?

How Many Golf Balls Fit In A School Bus?

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