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Density Lab

By Kyle Canavan and Jason Walker

Materials
100mL Graduated Cylinder 9 metal samples Scientific Scale 50mL of water

Procedure
1. Retrieve the 100mL graduated cylinder. 2. Fill it with 50mL of water and set aside. 3. Take a metal sample and place it on the scientific scale.

4. Record reading.

5. Take metal sample and place it in the graduated cylinder.

6. Record reading.

7. Drain water, and set metal sample aside. 8. Refill graduated cylinder with 50mL of water. 9. Repeat steps 3-8 for all other metal samples.

Hypothesis
We believe the three metals to be lead, copper, and aluminum. Lead will be the most dense, copper the second most dense, and aluminum the least dense. If the lead has more mass in a similar amount of volume, compared to the other metals, then it will be more dense. If the aluminum has less mass in a similar amount of volume, compared to the other metals, then it will be less dense.

Data Table

Graphs

Conclusion
When we were told to measure the mass and volume of 3 different metals, in order to find the densities of each, we hypothesized that the three metals would be lead, copper, and aluminum. We also hypothesized that lead would be the most dense, and aluminum the least, with copper in between. These hypotheses turned out to be true, the 3 metals were as hypothesized, and the relationship between the densities were also correct. These densities are calculated above, the slope of each line being the density of the metal, as density is calculated by the equation . These densities relate back to our table, whose accuracy was varied but true and whose data were precise. The largest errors were -0.5, which came out to a 4.4% error. Surprisingly, the largest percent error of 5.93% only had an error of 0.16. This is because the accepted value for that metal, aluminum, was smaller, thus any inaccuracy was more substantial in relation to the whole. These errors could have been caused by having excess moisture on the metals while weighing them, misreading volume measurements, and not having a precise enough scale. Next time we could use the much more precise scales, make sure to have fresh, clean, dry samples to weigh, and to really make sure that our volume measurements are correct by using a more precise graduated cylinder.

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