Units for Density
Unit for volume of a solid
What is cm3?
A bowl of soup occupies a volume of 5.0 mL and weighs 20 g. What is its density?
What is 4 g/mL?
This vocabulary word refers to the closeness between the measurement recorded and the true value.
What is accuracy?
Unit for volume of a liquid
What is mL?
Water has a density of 1 g/ml. What is the mass of the water if it fills a 10 ml container?
What is 10 g?
This vocabulary word refers to the closeness of repeated measurements to each other
What is precision?
Unit for mass
What is grams, g?
If a 95 g piece of aluminum has a density of 8 g/cm3, what is its volume?
What is 11.875 cm3?
This is due to poor technique or incorrectly calibrated instruments
What is determinate errors?
Units for the density of a solid
What is g/cm3?
Find the mass of 25 mL of hydrochloric acid. The density of the acid is 1.18 g/mL
What is 29.5 g?
These are errors that arise in estimating the last, uncertain digit of a measurement
What is indeterminate errors?
Units for the density of a liquid
What is g/mL?
A block of lead has dimensions of 3.5 cm by 2.5 cm by 1.5 cm. The block weighs 1550 g. From this information, calculate the density of lead.
What is 118 g/cm3?
The amount of mass in a certain volume of matter
What is density?