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Welcome to this video on Mass, Weight, Volume, Density, and Specific Gravity.
If you are wondering, “why on earth are you doing all of this in one video?
This is so much information.”
Yes, It is a lot of big topics jammed into one video, but if you want a really in depth
understanding of each, you can check out our individual videos by searching the topic followed by Mometrix.
In this video, I want to focus on what each of these are and how each of these are different.
Mass, weight, volume, and specific gravity get misused quite often.
So, let’s take a closer look.
What I’ll do is walk through the definition of each, and then we will go back through
and clear up some confusions that lead to these getting misused with one another.
Mass.
Mass is the measure of the amount of matter.
It is approximately the measure of the number of atoms in a given object.
Mass is also the measure of an object's resistance to gravity.
The Kilogram is the basic SI unit of mass.
Weight.
Weight is a force that is caused by the gravitational pull of the earth towards its surface.
The basic SI unit for weight is a newton.
Weight, and mass are the two that most often get confused with one another,
but we'll get back to that.
Volume.
Volume is a measure of the amount of three-dimensional
space that is being occupied by a liquid, solid, or a gas.
The basic SI unit for volume is cubic meter (m^3).
Density.
Density refers to the measurements of how compact an object is.
Specific Gravity.
Specific gravity is in direct relationship with density.
It is the ratio of an object’s density, and its contact substance.
For example, if you want to place an object in water, the specific gravity would tell
you if it would float or not.
Alright, we’ve just looked at the definition for each, but let’s go back through and
see how they are related to one another.
So, we started with mass.
For an object to have a weight, volume, density, or to find the specific gravity, it has to have mass.
Or else we have nothing and this would all be pointless.
So, every object has mass.
The next thing we would move to is the weight of an object.
Every object with mass, will also have weight due to gravity from the earth pulling that
object towards its surface.
In order to find the weight of an object, you would just multiply the mass of the object times gravity.
Something else to keep in mind about weight and mass is that mass doesn’t change unless
that object loses matter.
However, the weight of an object with the same mass can change depending on where it is.
Like the moon for instance; if I go to the moon I will weigh less due to the lesser gravity,
but I will still have the same mass.
Now, let’s move on to volume.
We’ve already defined it.
We’ve said that volume is the measure of space within an object.
But how can we find volume.
Well, all three dimensional objects are going to have height, length, and depth.
So, to find the amount of space within these three dimensions,
we multiply those three dimensions together.
The result will tell us the amount of space within that object.
Density
Density is directly related to the mass and the volume.
In fact it, tells us of the exact relationship between the two.
To find an object's density, we take its mass and divide it by its volume.
If the mass has a large volume, but a small mass it would be said to have a low density.
This would let us know that an object's matter is not very compact, but rather more spaced out.
If the object was low in volume, but high in mass, then it would have a high density.
This would tell us that the object’s matter is very compact within it.
This brings us to specific gravity.
Again, specific gravity tells us the relationship between the density of an object, and the contact substance.
The contact substance is most often water.
So, to find the specific gravity we would take the density of an object, and divide
it by the density of water.
If the specific gravity is greater than one, then we know that the object will sink.
If the specific gravity is less than one, then we know that the object will float on water.
This is because the density of water has to be greater than the density of the object.
I hope that this video over mass, weight, volume, density, and specific gravity helped
to give you better understanding of the way in which they relate to one another.
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