The lab

Zach Colander
Form III
9-20-03
Density of and Iron Nail
Abstract:
This lab report is going to show that many measuring tools are not as accurate as others. It will also show you how to find the density of an irregular object if the mass and volume can be found. It will also show you that all measurements taken arte not exact and that the number of significant figures represents the amount of error.

Intro:
Our class has been learning that the density, or the ration of the mass to the volume of a substance at a given temperature and pressure, of different objects is a physical property, or a characteristic shown by a substance itself without interacting with or changing into another substance. We also lea...