Density\Questions

1. Blessy has some cube of material

She wants to calculate the density of one of these

cubes.
Blessy needs to measure two physical quantities.
One of these is the mass of the cube.

a) Describe how she finds the mass of the cube.

b) What is the other physical quantity that blessy needs
to measure.
ii) How does she find this physical quantity?

2. The density of gold is 19.3 g/cm3. What is the mass

of 10 cm3 gold?

3. What is the mass of a copper cube of side 2cm?

(dcopper = 9 g/cm3)

4. What is density?

5. What is the SI unit of density?

6. How to measure the density of an irregular shaped

object?
7. How to measure the density of an regular shaped
objects?

8. How to measure the density of liquid?

9. The mass of a stone is found on a top pan balance. It

has a mass of 120.02 g. A measuring cylinder, the new
water level is 95 cm3. Find the density of the stone.

10. An object of known density of 2.7 g/cm3 is placed

into a measuring cylinder of water. The level of the
water rises from 45 cm3 to 72 cm3. What is the mass
of the object?

11. A metal block of density 3.2 g/cm3 and mass 90 g is

placed in a measuring cylinder containing 65 cm3 of
water. What is the new water level?