In science, there are thousands of ways to measure the world around us that the average person may never encounter. For example: Pascals to measure pressure, Candles to measure light intensity, and ...

A planet’s mass and volume are easy to determine. Because planets are nearly spheres, we can calculate volume from our knowledge of a planet’s radius, which we determine by measuring both the planet’s ...

Accompanying Lesson Plan: Lesson 3.2: Finding Volume—The Water Displacement Method The chart shows that atomic size and mass for the first 20 elements in the periodic table. The size of the atoms and ...