Students will be able to explain that the density of a liquid has to do with how heavy it is for the sample size. Students will also be able to explain that if a liquid is more dense than water, it ...

If something seems light for its size (like a bag of cotton or pumice rock), then we say it has low density. Mass is the amount of matter in an object. Volume is how much space the object takes up.

The same mass of liquid will have slightly greater volume than the solid. As density equals \(\frac{\text{mass}}{\text{volume}}\), the liquid will have slightly lower density. The density of solid ...