Question #70181
A 1.000 cubic centimeter sample of lead (density = 11.34 g/cm3), a 1.000 cubic centimeter sample of glass (density = 2500 kg/m3), and a 1.00 cm3 sample of Ebony wood (density = 960 kg/m3) and Balsa wood (density = 170 kg/m3). You drop each in separate beaker of water each containing 250 mL of water. How do the volumes of water displaced by each sample compare? Explain.
Expert's answer
Water density is 1000 g/cm 3
Lead has a greater density than water. It will sink fully displacing water by its volume – 1 cm 3 .
Glass has a greater density than water. It will sink fully displacing water by its volume – 1 cm 3 .
The Ebony will displace less than 1 mL, and the Balsa Wood would displace even less than the Ebony wood.
Lead has a greater density than water. It will sink fully displacing water by its volume – 1 cm 3 .
Glass has a greater density than water. It will sink fully displacing water by its volume – 1 cm 3 .
The Ebony will displace less than 1 mL, and the Balsa Wood would displace even less than the Ebony wood.
