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The document discusses an experiment to measure pi and the density of aluminum. The student measured an aluminum cylinder and calculated pi as 3.4 with an 8.28% error and measured the density as 2.95g/cm^3 with a 9.26% error, where the actual values are 3.1415 for pi and 2.7g/cm^3 for the density of aluminum. Major sources of error included inaccurately measuring the cylinder with a ruler and an improperly zeroed balance.

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Lab Report 1

The document discusses an experiment to measure pi and the density of aluminum. The student measured an aluminum cylinder and calculated pi as 3.4 with an 8.28% error and measured the density as 2.95g/cm^3 with a 9.26% error, where the actual values are 3.1415 for pi and 2.7g/cm^3 for the density of aluminum. Major sources of error included inaccurately measuring the cylinder with a ruler and an improperly zeroed balance.

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Measurements and Errors

Charles Ellis
Hilary Myers

Matthew Rau

PS103L-07

1/20/2010
Discussion of Results
In the begging an Aluminum cylinder and was instructed to find Pi and the
density of Aluminum. The actual value of Pi is 3.1415 [1]. During the experiment
the calculated value of Pi was 3.4 with an 8.28% error, using the formula for Pi. The
experimental value of the density of Aluminum was 2.95g/cm 2 with a 9.26% error.
While the actual value of the density of Aluminum is 2.7g/ cm2 [2]. One of the major
errors was being able to accurately measure the cylinder, by the ruler not being
exactly aligned properly. The second error could be mechanically due to the triple
beam balance not zeroed correctly.

References
1. Weisstein , Eric W “Pi” from MathWorld – A Wolfram Web Resource.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Pi.html

2. Wolfram Alpha (2010). Retrieved January 21, 2010. From


http://www.wolframalpha.com

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