Some Density Problems
Students at the Help! Session last night
requested some additional density problems. Here is what I found;
Density Question #1:
What is the volume of a 898 kilogram piece
of iron metal (density is 7.75 g mL-1)? How long
would a piece of iron have to be if the base is 1.50 cm2?
Density Question #2:
A packing material has a density of 12.8 kg
m-3. How many grams of the material are needed to
fill a volume of 3.00 ft3 ?
Density Question #3:
Which of the following items would be the
heaviest?
a) a 100 pound bag of dog food;
b) a 15 gallon plastic container of
water (assume the container's mass is negligible);
c) a 3.0 L container of mercury (density
= 13.6 g mL-1).
Density Question #4:
Mercury is shipped in containers holding 76
pounds of mercury. Whould such a container fit into a wooden
box which has inside dimensions of 8.0 inches by 4.0 inches
by 4.0 inches?