Names: Elliot, Ryan, Hannah, Simon Section: 8-2

Displacement

Objective: To use the process of displacement to obtain the data necessary to solve the dilemma while modeling
precision [and the lack of] in measurement.

Notes:
1000 cm3 = 1000 mL
1 cm3 = 1 mL
Displacement is obtaining the volume of solid objects based on the amount of water that is displaced when the object
is fully submerged.
Initial volume = 70 mL
Final volume = 72.5 mL
72.5mL-70mL=2.5 cm3
Percent of Error= how close or far from the actual value (accuracy)
% of error = (me) measured value - actual value
actual value
X 100
=l?l %

Dilemma : Preparation is Key

Youre running out the door to catch the bus on the first day of school. You realize that you dont have a dark blue
marker and a light blue marker, two mandatory items on the supplies list you got over the summer. Not wanting to
miss the bus, but also not wanting to go unprepared on the very first day, you wish you could freeze this moment in
time, so you could grab the two markers, but which two markers would you grab? With your bag bursting at the
seams, youd only have 45 cm3 left of space to fit the two markers in. Just like that, everything around you stops, and
you realize that your wildest freeze frame moment is now quick which marker combinations could you fit?

Measurable Property: volume of irregular shaped solids

Materials: markers, water for measurement


Equipment: graduated cylinders of various sizes, beaker for water, droppers, glass stirring rod

Terms to include: meniscus, eye level, graduated, calibrated, volume, displacement

Images: Precision in procedural steps [include in photo collection below]

Additional Documentation: A table for data collection [as seen below]

Image of marker Volume by displacement [cm3] Actual % of error

show equation for work Value show equation for work
[cm3]
TBP

Highlighter 100-70=30 29 30 - 29 1 x 100 = 1 00 =

29 29 29
3.45 %

Skinny crayola 90-80=10 11 10 - 11 = -1 x 100 = -100

11 11 11
9.09%

Thick crayola 98-75=23 22 23-22 = 1 x 100 = 100 =

22 22 22
4.55%

Yobi washable 98-75=23 22 23-22 x 100= 100

22 22
4.55%

Photo Collection

Dilemma Solutions / Possible Combinations

1. Yobi and thick

2. Yobi and thin
3. Highlighter and thick