How Do You Use Water Displacement To Measure Volume?
When you want to try and measure the volume of an irregularly shaped object, it is often difficult and complicated to do. The easiest method to achieve this is known as the “water displacement method”. This is the most commonly used technique and is very simple and accurate. The steps for the water displacement method are listed below. Write down the following equation on a piece of paper: [(b) – (a)] = Volume of odd shaped object Find a graduated cylinder that will be large enough to fit the object being measured into. Fill the graduated cylinder enough so that when placed in the graduated cylinder, the object will be fully submerged in the water. Also be careful not to put in so much water that the water level will rise past the graduated cylinder’s markings when the object is placed in the graduated cylinder. After filling the graduated cylinder to a level that will allow us to put our object in without spilling, record the volume of the water as (a) in your equation that we wrote d
