Duhok Polytechnic University

Technical College of Engineering

Petrochemical Engineering Department

Title of Experiment:

Density and Specific Gravity

Student name:

Ahmad Tahseen Hamid

Class:

Date Expt. Performed:

27/2/2017

Date Report Submitted

6/3/2017
 Density and Specific Gravity

Introduction:
Density is a mass per unit volume of a substance. The symbol most often
used for density is (ρ). Mathematically, density is defined as mass divided
by volume
𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒔
Density =
𝑽𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒆

Different materials usually have different densities

Specific gravity (S.G.) is the ratio of the density of a substance to the

density of a reference substance at the same temperature.
𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒅
Specific gravity =
𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓

Objectives of the experiment:

1. To calculate the density of a substance from measurements of its

mass and volume.

2. To calculate the specific gravity of a liquid from its densit