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Disp Method

The document describes the displacement (eureka) can method to determine the volume of an object that is too large to fit inside a measuring cylinder. The method involves using a displacement can filled with water, a string, and a measuring cylinder. The object is tied with string and lowered into the can, displacing water which overflows into the measuring cylinder. The volume of the displaced water is then measured to determine the volume of the object.

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Disp Method

The document describes the displacement (eureka) can method to determine the volume of an object that is too large to fit inside a measuring cylinder. The method involves using a displacement can filled with water, a string, and a measuring cylinder. The object is tied with string and lowered into the can, displacing water which overflows into the measuring cylinder. The volume of the displaced water is then measured to determine the volume of the object.

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Describe the displacement method to determine the volume of a stone.

Material needed: 1,_____________ 2,_____________ 3,_____________


Procedure:
• Some some____________ into a ____________ ____________
• Read the ____________ of water at eye level with the lower ____________ to avoid
____________ error.
• Tie the stone with a piece of ____________
• Lower the stone gently into water to avoid ____________
• Read the ____________ volume of water
• Volume of the stone is the ____________ between the two readings
• Why should the stone be fully immersed in water?
• Why a thin string is used?

Ex 1 Describe a method to find accurately the volume of a solid cuboid.


Ex 2 You are provided with a box of paper clips
Describe a method to determine accurately the volume of a paper clip.

Displacement (eureka) Can Method

When the stone is too large to put into the measuring cylinder, we use the displacement can
method.
Materials needed: water, displacement can, string measuring cylinder, stand
Procedure:

• Place the displacement can on a stand.


• Pour some water into the displacement can until water overflows from the spout.
• When no more water overflows, place the empty measuring cylinder below the spout.
• Tie the stone with a string and carefully lower it in the displacement can.
• The water displaced by the stone overflows into the measuring cylinder.
• Read the volume of water collected in the measuring cylinder.
• The volume of the stone = volume of water collected in the measuring cylinder.

Questions:

1. Why should the stone be lowered carefully in the displacement can?


2. Why the eye is placed at the same level as the lower meniscus when reading volume?
3. Why the measuring cylinder must be dry before use?
4. Why the bench is level flat?
5. Why should you wait for water to stop dripping from the spout before immersing the stone into
water?
6. Why the can is placed on a stand?
7. Why the displacement can must be filled with water exactly to the spout level?
8. Why it is a good practice to repeat the measurement of volume and then find an average value?
Question 1

A student wishes to find the volume of a piece of wood of irregular shape. Her experiment requires
the use of a small brass object of mass 200 g.
(a) Calculate the volume of the brass object. The density of brass is 8.4 g / cm 3.

(b) To find the volume of the piece of wood, the student has a measuring cylinder, a supply of
water and the brass object in (a). The piece of wood and the brass object are small enough to
be placed in the measuring cylinder.
(i) The piece of wood does not sink in water.
Suggest why.

(ii) Describe what the student does to find the volume of the piece of wood, stating the
measurements that she makes and any calculations required.

Question 2

The diagram shows an oil tank that has a rectangular base of dimensions 2.4 m by 1.5 m.

The tank is filled with oil of density 850 kg /m3 to a depth of 1.5 m.

(a) Calculate the mass of oil in the tank.

(b) When he is checking the level of oil in the tank, a man drops a brass key into the oil and it
sinks to the bottom of the oil.
(i) State what this shows about the density of brass.
(ii) Explain how attaching the key to a piece of wood could prevent the key from sinking.

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