Lab Questions:

1. Explain each of the following errors in weighing:

a. Instrumental errors
-These errors occur as a result of instrument defects, incorrect instrument use, or the
instrument's loading effects. An instrument's inherent mistakes can sometimes be
caused by improper manufacturing, calibration, or operation.

b. Static electric effects

- The effect of an imbalance between negative and positive charges in an object is
static electricity. These charges can accumulate on an object's surface until they can
be released or discharged. A circuit is one method of discharging them. Electrostatic
force can be used to move small objects, such as the weigh pan of an analytical
balance. Static charge attracts particles to weighing samples, transit containers, and
scale components. Weighing errors, sample loss, and contamination are all
difficulties.

c. Buoyant effect errors

- Buoyancy error is a weighing error caused by a difference in the buoyant force put
on the object and the standard masses by a medium (usually air). When the item and
the standard masses have the same mass, there is a difference in buoyant force. By
estimating the volume difference between the unknown weight and the standard,
multiplying this volume difference by the density of air at the balance or scale, and
adding the product to the standard's mass, mass measurements are buoyancy
corrected.

d. Atmospheric effects
-The scale measures the force is applied, which can be exerted by air pressure or any
other object on the scale; when measuring the weight, the effects of air pressure on
every side of the pan must be considered.

2. Which will weigh more, a cold or a hot object? Why?

-The hot object is heavier. When two absolutely identical things have the same weight
when they are at the same temperature, one of them will weigh heavier when heated. In
general relativity, the gravitational force is determined by the stress energy tensor.
Temperature discrepancies indicate that the kinetic energy in the motion of the atoms in
the two bodies differs.

3. What do the terms accuracy and precision mean? How do they differ?
- Scientists think of error in two ways: precision and accuracy. The accuracy of a
measurement relates to how close it is to the true or acceptable value. Precision refers to
how closely identical measurements of the same thing are. Precision is not the same as
accuracy. That is, it is possible to be exact without being precise, and it is also possible to
 be precise without being precise. The most accurate and exact scientific observations are
those that are both accurate and precise.
4. Why does a cork float in water while a stone sink in water?
- Because its cells are empty, cork floats on water. Any object that is dropped into a
liquid causes the liquid to be displaced. The weight of a floating object is the same as the
weight of the liquid it displaces. Sinking objects are heavier than the liquid they displace,
so the stone is heavier than the cork, causing it to sink. Not only that, but cork is much
less dense than stone.
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