Volume Units Lab

Sevannah Weisenberger
Chemistry
Mrs. Gates
9/22/14



     In this lab that we worked on for the past few days we worked with water, rulers and hollow shapes, We then filled them up with water to find out the volume of the water in mL and measured them with the rulers by using centimeters.
     The relationship between ML and cm^3 is when one goes up or down the other increases and decreases along with it- meaning they are almost the same thing, because they are both measuring volume. Our evidence wasn't much, we didn't calculate an equation but we did figure out the slope= 1.953. Everyone's Y-int is 0 because to have an intercept that would mean something with 0 cm^3 would have to be able to hold water which isn't possible.
     My claim is supported by the smaller objects having smaller volume and the bigger objects having a bigger volume, thus it follows the hypothesis of everyone going along with thinking that ML and CM^3 are the same thing, or close to the same thing with room for error. Scientific rules that can explain why this is, is because you can't have something with small volume in centimeters and large volume in millimeters, it won't work.. it's just not possible. It helps answer our "big question" about how the two relate because the changes in volume coincide/interact similarly and show the same thing happening.

     By the end of this lab, we figured out that ML and CM^3 are similar but are different also, because one is using water and the other is using centimeters but by sharing data with other students in the the classroom we found that our opinions matched theirs about what happened, and what the similarities are.