Volume Units Lab

Claim:

I believe that volume measured in mL is the exact same as volume measured in cm^3.  

Evidence: Slope = 0.8144

                 Y-intercept = 0

                 Equation: Y = 0.8144x + 0

Reasoning: Our evidence supports our claim that volume in mL and cm^3 are the same because our line, for the most part, is right around the line of best fit.  True, it looks like there are some ups and downs, but we believe that those bumps are because of errors that we made during measuring.  With the water, it would be very easy to accidentally spill or lose volume in a similar way.  And, like Mrs. Gates said in class, it is impossible to be exactly correct when using experimental data.  If we were 100% correct in our measuring, the line would be exactly the same as the line of best fit, showing quite clearly that when the volume in mL goes up, the volume in cm^3 increases by the exact same amount. A slope for that 100% perfect data's change in mL over the change in cm^3 would be 1/1, or just 1.  The slope of our non-perfect data is 0.8144, which is actually getting pretty close to 1.  Also, our Y-intercept is 0, which means that when one variable is 0, the other has to be 0 as well. So, in conclusion, mL and cm^3 move on our graph as one unit, only with different names and as different ways of measuring matter.

I labeled this as 'Matter' because it doesn't describe the properties of matter like 'Behave' does, nor the energy in matter like 'energy' does. It simply is about the way we measure matter.  How matter takes up space, to be exact.

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