Density Independent Task

Part One

These videos will help:

Practicals 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7uto-YfSRc

2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh4W-cXcsBQ

3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypg6mRbEhWs

Archimedes’ principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijj58xD5fDI

Write a method for each of the 3 practicals, regular solid, irregular solid and liquid. Remember to
bullet point it – clues for each below.
PART TWO

Density Required Practical Task

To help you answer these questions, watch the following video.

https://www.gcsephysicsonline.com/practical-density

The questions are roughly in order, but some require you to watch the whole video to answer.

1. What is the equation to calculate density?

Regular Solid

2. What is the mass of the piece of wood? Give this in grams and kilograms.

3. What is the length of the piece of wood? Give this in centimetres and metres.

4. What was used to measure the diameter of the piece of wood?

5. Write down the three measurements of the diameter of the piece of wood and calculate an
average. Convert this to metres.
 lπ d2
6. Use the equationV = to calculate the volume in metres.
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7. Calculate the density of the piece of wood in kg/m 3.

Irregular solid

8. Take the following readings from the video and calculate the density of the polystyrene in
g/cm3,

Mass =

Volume (remember 1 ml = 1 cm3) =

Density =

9. What pieces of equipment are used to measure the volume of the polystyrene?
 10. Why must you measure volume from measuring cylinders from eye level?

Liquid

11. Take readings from the video to calculate the density of sugar water in g/cm3

12. What sources of inaccuracy do you think there might be in these investigations?