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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Volume Units Lab

Claim: My partner and I thought that the outcome of the two (cm^3 and mL) would be different.  We thought that measuring the volumes with water in mL would have a slightly lower volume due to not being able to get every last bit of water out of the container.

Evidence: After measuring all three of our own shapes, we traded with a different group and go the information for their 3 shapes.  In the end we had measurements of 6 different shapes.  Our evidence is that for each of the shapes the measurements were very similar and close, but the the same volumes.  The volumes that were measured with water are slightly less than the volumes measured in cm^3.  Our equation that was used in our graph was W= 0.8965(mL/cm^3)V+2.551.  We did not get the answer to come out that 1cm^3= 1mL, but it did come close.

Reasoning:  We are saying our graph shows that they are similar but not exactly the same.  This is not because the shape changed with in the time that we measured them, but we are saying that the measurements can't be 100% the exact same because of the water left behind.




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