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A graduated cylinder may be used for small objects that are insoluble in a selected liquid. But that method would not work for determining the volume of a sugar cube (soluble in water) or a motor car (won't fit in a graduated cylinder!).

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How do you find a volume of a L-Shaped figure?

An L shaped figure is a plane figure and so will not have a volume.


What is the volume of a figure when the surface area is 294?

The surface area of a figure does not provide enough information to determine its volume. Indeed, it does no even determine its shape.The volume can have any positive value up to 474.018 cubic units.The surface area of a figure does not provide enough information to determine its volume. Indeed, it does no even determine its shape.The volume can have any positive value up to 474.018 cubic units.The surface area of a figure does not provide enough information to determine its volume. Indeed, it does no even determine its shape.The volume can have any positive value up to 474.018 cubic units.The surface area of a figure does not provide enough information to determine its volume. Indeed, it does no even determine its shape.The volume can have any positive value up to 474.018 cubic units.


What piece of lab equipment would you use to determine the volume of an irregularly shaped object?

A beaker. Simply fill the beaker with a known quantity of liquid. Drop the object into the beaker, and measure the difference in the fluid levels.


Why does the first method for determining volume work only for a regularly shaped object?

Because only regular-shaped objects have a consistent length, width, height, and shape. When dealing with an object composed of differing shapes, your must calculate each portion separately and then add them. For instance, if you have a swimming pool of two depths and want to determine cubic feet, you would have to calculate the volume for each section and then add them.


What is the name of the method by which the volume of an irregularly shaped object is found?

the water displacement method

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Why do we need to measure irregulary shaped objects by water displacement?

Measuring irregularly shaped objects by water displacement helps to determine their volume accurately, as irregular shapes make it difficult to measure using traditional methods such as rulers or calipers. By immersing the object in water and calculating the volume of water displaced, we can determine the volume of the object regardless of its shape.


How can you use the displacement of water to measure the volume of an object?

You fill up water ina beaker, measure the volume of the water as it originally was, then drop in an irregulary-shaped object, measure that volume, and subtrect the two. The difference is the volume of the object.


How can you find the volume of an irregulary shaped object?

If the body is a solid not soluble in water then we can keep it immersed in a measurable jar. Just noting down the level of water raised and getting the difference in the level with the initial one, we can get the volume of the irregular shaped object.


What tool is used to measure volume of a regularly shaped object?

A ruler or other measuring instrument may be used to determine the dimensions of a regularly shaped abject, and the volume may then be calculated by applying the dimensions to the applicable formula.


What can you determine from an irregular shaped object by its displacement?

The volume of the object.


How can you use water diplacements to find the volume of an irregulary shaped object?

First you need to get a graduaded cylinder and then you need to fill it up enough to submerge the entire object then you drop the object into the water and you look how much the water level rised and that is the volume of the object.


What is an instrument used to measure volume of liquids and irregularly shaped objects?

graduated cylinder


What is the best measuring tool to determine the volume of an irregular shaped object?

A graduated cylinder can be used to measure the volume of irregular-shaped objects by displacement method. Place the object in the cylinder filled with water, and measure the change in water volume to calculate the object's volume.


Could the water displacement method be used to determine the volume of a regular shaped object as well as an irregular shaped object?

Yes


When would you use displacement and when would you use math to determine volume of an object?

I would assume that you would use displacement to determine volume when the object is extremely complicatedly shaped.


How can you measure the volume of an irregulary shaped object?

Drop the object into a graduated cylinder 50 mL half full of water and find the difference in volume. If it is too big for a measuring cylinder then make a small hole in the side of a plastic container, fill with water to this hole, drop the object in and collect the run off. Measure the volume of the run off.


How can you determine the volume of a regularly shaped solid?

Put solid in a container ; fill container with water to a known container volume; take object out of container and read the remaining volume. subtract this remaining volumefrom the known volume. This result is the volume of the regular or irregular shaped solid.