Density Lab 10/21/2013 Hannah Sample James Wallace

Materials:

graduated cylinder (100ml) 3 mystery metals (3 samples of each) water digital school calculator

Procedure: 1. Acquire a 100mL graduated cylinder Measure out 50mL of water into the cylinder 2. Acquire one sample of one mystery metal Weigh on digital scale and record data in table Place mystery metal in graduated cylinder Record the water displacement in table 3. Calculate and record the density of the metal 4. Repeat steps 1-3 for all samples of metal 5. Find out what metals they are based on their densities Observations: Metal 1: Aluminum Metal 2: Copper Metal 3: Lead Table:
Initial Volume (mL) 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 Final Volume (mL) 64 63 74.7 57.8 56.9 56.6 61.3 60.9 59.9 Actual Volume (mL) 14 13 24.7 7.8 6.9 6.6 11.3 10.9 9.9 Accepted Density (g/mL) 2.7 2.7 2.7 8.96 8.96 8.96 11.35 11.35 11.35

Metals Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 1 Test 2 Test 3

Mass (g) 37.8 35 67.6 73.6 63.8 58.6 120.4 120.1 108.5

Experimental Density (g/mL) 2.7 2.7 2.7 9.4 9.2 8.9 10.7 11 11

Error 0 0 0 0.44 0.24 -0.06 -0.65 -0.35 -0.35

% Error 0 0 0 4.9 2.7 0.7 5.7 3.1 3.1

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Conclusion: The purpose of the experiment was to find out the type of metals we were measuring. We guessed that the metals were Aluminum, Copper, and Lead. Our guess was correct for all three metals. Using the data, we found out that when you measure out density it might not be accurate. We also found out that while the percent error for Aluminum was 0 and we were spot on, the other two metals had a varying percent error from as low as 0.7% to as high as 5.7%. If we could redo this experiment, we would double check the amount of water in the graduated cylinder. There could be a higher error percent in some of them because of human error.