TEST YOURSELF CHAPTER 2 PHYSICAL QUANTITIES AND MEASUREMENT

1. Define
a. Density
b. Relative density
2. State the
a. Law of Floatation
3. What is the symbol for density and what it is called?
4. Enumerate the different units of density.
5. State the conversion factor between SI unit and CGS unit of density.
6. Instruments used to measure the volume of the following.
a. Irregular solid
b. Liquid
7. State the formula for measuring the volume of the following
a. Cube
b. Cuboid
c. Sphere
d. Cylinder
8. What is the reference substance to measure relative density?
9. Why is water chosen as the reference substance?
10. Density of water at 4℃ in kg m-3 and g cm-3.
11. Write the formula of specific gravity.
12. Draw a relative density bottle. Enumerate the other names of a relative density bottle.
13. Write in brief on how to use the pycnometer.
14. Deduce the formula for specific gravity of a substance measured using a specific gravity
bottle.
15. Draw a hydrometer.
16. Write in brief on how to use a hydrometer.
17. Compare densities of solids, liquids and gases in descending order. Explain your answer.
18. Enumerate the 2 forces acting on body immersed in water. Briefly describe the forces.
19. State whether the following objects will sink or float. Draw out the forces acting on it and
the position of object.
a. A watch with greater density then water dropped into it.
b. A eraser dropped into oil. Both eraser and oil have the same density.
c. A ship with less density than sea water.
20. Write true or false for each statements.
a. Equal volumes of 2 different substance have equal masses.
b. Density of piece of brass will change by changing its size and shape.
c. Density of liquid decreases with increases in its temperature.
d. Relative density of water is 1.0.
e. Relative density of a substance is expressed in g/cm3.
f. When a body is immersed in liquid, buoyant force experienced by body is equal to
weight of liquid displaced by submerged part.
g. Specific gravity has units.
h. Lactometer is used to test purity of milk.
i. Substance having relative density less than 1 will sink in water.
j. Substance having relative density more than 1 will sink in water.
21. Fill in the blanks.
 a. 1 mL = _____ cm3
b. 1 kg is mass of _____mL of water at 4℃.
c. Mass = Density x _____
d. Density of body which sinks in water is _____ 1 000 kg m-3.
e. A body sinks in liquid A, but floats in liquid B. The density of liquid A is _____ than
density of liquid B.
f. A body X sinks in water, but body Y floats on water. The density of body X is _____
density of body Y.
g. Weight of body floating in liquid is _____.
h. Relative density of alcohol is 0.8. Its density is _____.
i. Block of wood of density 0.8 g/cm3 has volume of 60 cm3. The mass of block is
_____.
22. Pick the correct statement.
a. The density of aluminium is 2.7 g cm-3 and that of brass is 8.4 g cm-3.
 Equal masses of aluminium and brass have equal volumes.
 Mass of certain volume of brass is more than mass of equal volume of
aluminium.
 Volume of certain mass of brass is more than volume of equal mass of
aluminium.
 Equal volumes of aluminium and brass have equal masses.
b. Density bottle has marking 25 mL on it. It means that
 Mass of density bottle is 25 g.
 Density bottle will store 25 mL of anyliquid in it.
 Density bottle will store 25 mL of water, but more volume of liquid denser
than water.
 Density bottle will store 25 mL of water, but more volume of liquid lighter
than water.
c. Buoyant force on a body is
 Equal to volume of liquid displaced by it
 Equal to volume of body
 Equal to weight of liquid displaced by it
 Equal to weight of body
d. Piece of wood floats on water. Buoyant force on wood will be
 Zero
 More than weight of wood piece
 Equal to weight of wood piece
 Less than weight of wood piece
e. Weight of body is more than buoyant force experienced by it, due to a liquid. The
body will
 Sink
 Float with some part outside liquid
 Float just below surface of liquid
 Float with whole of its volume above surface of liquid
23. Explain how submarines sink and float.
24. Explain how icebergs float.
25. Solve the following
a. You make a cake that has a mass of 300 grams and fits in a cake pan that is 30 by 10
by 6.0 centimeters cubed. What is the density of the cake?
b. A box of cough drops has a mass of 1.0 gram, and its dimensions are 1.0 by 5.0 by
8.5 centimeters cubed. It contains 30 cough drops, each of which has a mass of 2.2
grams. What is the density of the box when it is full of cough drops?
c. The density of gasoline is 721 kilograms per cubic meter. What is its specific gravity?