Density
The density of a 24 karat gold ring as compared to a 24 karat gold bar would be this.
What is the same?
One ball is titanium. Another is clay. This one is more elastic.
What is the titanium ball?
This part of a beam experiences no tension or compression.
What is the middle layer or neutral layer?
If you compared a 30 ft Anaconda to a 4 ft Mojave Green rattlesnake, this one would have the larger skin to bodyweight ratio.
What is the rattlesnake?
The arrangement of atoms in all solid metals can be described as this.
What is a crystal or crystalline arrangement?
The density of a Wendy's frosty is approximately 12 grams per cubic inch. If the top half of the frosty is removed, the density of the remaining half will be this.
What is unchanged?
A steel ball and a rubber ball are dropped from the same height. This one bounces higher.
What is the steel ball?
Tension will weaken an arch. This strengthens it.
What is compression?
A 1 cubic inch wooden block is multiplied by a scale factor of 100. The volume of the scaled up wooden block is this.
What is 1 million cubic inches?
A kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of lead are balanced on a scale. The one with the higher density is this.
What is the lead?
The density of a 1500mL tub of ice cream with a mass of 4500 grams would be this.
What is 3 grams/cubic cm? or 3 grams / mL
The spring in a scale is stretched 3 cm by a weight of 1 pound. If the weight is increased to 4 pounds it will stretch this far.
What is 12 cm?
A structure with this shape experiences compression but not tension, and so it does not need buttressing.
What is a catenary?
A craft maker decides to make wooden carvings of fruit. She buys 100 pounds of wooden plums and 100 pounds of wooden grapefruit. She will buy the most paint for these ones.
What are the plums?
A cast iron dutch oven is placed on some coals to cook some potatoes. As the oven heats up, the density of the cast iron becomes ....
What is less?
The gas in a weather balloon has a density of 1.18 g/L. As the balloon rises the air pressure around it decreases causing the balloon to expand and volume to increase. When the volume has increased to twice the original amount, this will be the density of the helium gas.
What is 0.59 g/L
A 50 pound weight is suspended from a spring that is stretched 16 inches. An identical spring is attached to the weight so that it is now suspended from two springs. The springs are now stretched this far.
What is 8 inches?
This is the biggest factor in the strength of a beam or a rope.
What is its cross section or thickness?
This 3 dimensional shape is the most efficient for surface area to volume applications.
What is the sphere?
These are the forces that hold the crystals inside crystalline matter together.
What are electrical bonding forces?
An object has a density of 6000 grams per cubic inch and a volume 5 cubic inches. Its mass is this.
What is 30,000 grams or 30 kg?
An unstretched spring is 50 cm. A 50 N block is attached and now the spring is 60 cm. If another 50 N block is attached the spring will be this long.
What is 70 cm?
The invention of the arch by the Romans was most useful for building with stone because it reduces the amount of this type of force that is exerted on the stone.
What is tension?
Nancy bakes 4 pounds of dough in a single loaf at 350 degrees F. and it turns out perfectly. Jessica decides to bake the same amount of dough in 4 one pound loaves at the same heat. If she bakes them the same amount of time, this is the result.
What are four burned loaves?
If 8 dwarf planets slowly collide such that there was no loss of mass, the surface area of the newly formed large planet would be this much compared to the combined surface areas of the original 8 dwarf planets.
What is half?