Learning Intentions
- To learn how liquids sort themselves according to density
- To learn how to know if an object will float in a liquid
Media
Gold is a very dense metal.
Sick Science – Amazing 9 Layer Density Tower (1:24)
Caltech’s Feynman Lecture Hall – Poly Density Bottle (1:37)
CalPolyPomonaDemos – Bubble Floating in CO2 (1:12)
A Galileo Thermometer is a tool that measures temperature using the decreasing density of a liquid as it heats up.
Doc Foley Chemistry – Time-Lapse Video of a Galileo Thermometer (0:26)
Galileo Thermometer – Things You Didn’t Know You Needed (0:26)
Science & Math Education Videos for All – Galileo Thermometer (3:53)
Worksheets
Worksheet Solutions – Density of Matter
Lab – Density of a Metal Block
See Also
Physics 11 – Buoyancy (Force)

