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