WHAT IS DENSITY?

If you take the same volume of different

substances, then they will weigh different
Wood amounts.
Water Iron

1 cm3 1 cm3 1 cm3

0.50 g 1.00 g 8.00 g

IRON

Density is the Mass per unit Volume

The density of a substance is a measure of the amount of matter in a certain volume
of it.
 Density Equation:
g or kg

Density = Mass
m
Volume
gcm-3 or kgm-3

V
cm3 or ml

= m Example:
Q) Liquid water has a density
V of 1000kgm-3, while ice has
density of 920kgm-3.
V = m = 0.25 =
0.000250m3 Calculate the volume
occupied by 0.25kg of each.
V = m =1000
0.25 =
0.000272m3
 DENSITY OF A REGULAR
SOLID
m = 240 g
Find the Mass
of the solid
2.0 cm on a balance.
Measure the
three lengths
and calculate
3.0 cm the Volume.
Calculate the
Density.
4.0 cm
= m = 240 =10.0 g/cm3
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Materia Mass Length Width Height Volume Density
l in g in cm in cm in cm in cm3 in
g/cm3
 DENSITY g/cm3
Aluminium 2.70
Iron 7.86
Brass 8.50
Wood 0.50
Slate 2.80
Glass 2.50
Lead 11.3
Marble 2.70
Wax 0.89
 DENSITY OF AN IRREGULAR
SOLID
m = 360 g
= m = 360 =12.0
g/cm3
FindV the30
Mass of the
solid on a balance.
80 cm3 Fill the Measuring
Cylinder with Water to a
known Volume.
50 cm3
Add the Object.

Work out the Volume

of Water that is
displaced.
Calculate the Density.
 DENSITY OF AN IRREGULAR
SOLID
OR use a Eureka Can to find the Volume.

Find the mass of the solid

m = 440 g
on a balance.
Add water until just

overflowing.
Place a Measuring Cylinder

under the spout.

Add the Object.
40.0 cm3
Collect the Water and read

off the Volume.

= m = 440 =11.0 g/cm3
V 40 Calculate Density
Mass of Liquid = Mass of Measuring Cylinder and Liquid
Mass of DENSITY OF A LIQUID
empty Measuring
Find the Mass of an empty
Cylinder Measuring Cylinder.
Add a certain Volume of Liquid.
Find the Mass of the Measuring
Cylinder and Liquid
Calculate the Mass of Liquid.
25.0 g
How?
Calculate Density of Liquid.
45.0 g

20.0 cm3

45 25 = 20 g
= m = 20 =1.00
g/cm3
Liquid Mass of Mass of Mass of Volume Density
empty Measurin Liquid in cm3 in g/cm3
Measurin g in g
g Cylinder
Cylinder and
in g Liquid
in g
 DENSITY OF A GAS

Remove the air

To vacuum flask from a flask of a
known Volume,
using a vacuum
pump.
150.0 g Find its Mass.
1000 cm3
Add the gas to be
170.0 g
tested.
Reweigh.
170 -150 = The difference is
20.0g the Mass of gas.
= m = 20 =0.0200 g/cm3
V 1000 Calculate Density.