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Measuring Air Density in the Introductory Lab
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Calza, G.; Gratton, L. M.; Lopez-Arias, T.; Oss, S. – Physics Teacher, 2010
The measurement of the mass, or the density, of air can easily be done with very simple materials and offers many interesting phenomena for discussion--buoyancy and its effects being the most obvious but not the only one. Many interesting considerations can be done regarding the behavior of gases, the effect of the external conditions in the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Textbooks, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions