Monday, February 1, 2010

Fluids: Weight, Mass, and Volume.

Hello Everyone,
today in class we had a lesson on fluids, and I didn't blog last week because we tested our hover crafts, so I felt it wasn't crucial so I thought I was would do this class instead, but I will still nevertheless do Wednesday's class.

What is mass? Mass is matter, and matter is NOT WEIGHT. If your mass is 80 kgs and you decide to fly to the moon you are still going to be 80 kgs but your weight WILL change.
Mass can never change, 1kg of a substance has the same mass as another 1kg of another substance, even though they may be different, materials, shapes, weight.
There are different ways to hold matter.

Volume= Measurement of Space.
Volume measures how much space an object occupies.

The formula to figure out volume is :
Base X Width X Height

The basic form of measurement for gas is cm3.
Whereas liquids use litres or milliletres.
IF YOU ARE USING VOLUME LIQUIDS you can use cm3.


For more information, refer to Mr. Foster, he did hint a potential quiz, so get ready!

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