Density Of Aluminum Lab

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Grace Murphy 15 September 2015 7th Hour Katelyn Stevens Determine the Density of Aluminum Purpose: To determine the density of aluminum using the water displacement method. Procedure: First, fill a 10 mL-graduated cylinder as close to 5 mL as possible with water and record the volume ( to the nearest 0.01mL) on the data sheet. Next, find the mass of the container with the aluminum using a balance and record it on your sheet. Carefully drop pieces of the aluminum into the graduated cylinder. Drop just enough pieces to rise the water level 0.5 mL. Record the starting and ending volumes. Now, re-mass the container and aluminum and record its value. Keep adding pieces of aluminum to the graduated cylinder, increasing the water level each time by 0.5 mL and recording it, and also re-mass the container and aluminum and recording that as well. Whenever you record the volume, record to the nearest 0.01mL. Do this six times. Data: Trial # Volume of water after addition of metal m(L). Mass of the container and metal (g). 1 5.24 mL 10.061 g 2 5.49 mL 9.293 g 3 5.99 mL 8.055 g 4 6.51 mL 6.647 g 5 7.02 mL 5.189 g 6 7.51 mL 3.932 g Calculation: Error: Our percent error was -0.37%. % error = EV-AV * 100 % error = 2.69-2.70 * 100 = -0.37% AV…show more content…
The real density of aluminum is 2.70 grams, the density we found was 2.69 grams. This made the present error -0.37%. A couple sources of error we could have had are reading the measurements on the graduated cylinder and scale and also we could have inaccurately recorded the data. In order to get more accurate data one could use a more specific scale, tested a few more times, or been more specific about the pieces of aluminum they used. The experiment did meet the overall goal, which was getting close to, if not hitting, the density of 2.70 grams and we came close with less than -0.5% percent

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