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yes you can use a balance to measure the volume of an irregular shaped solid.
Immerse it in water and its volume is equal to the volume of water displaced
You measure the height and the length and add them together. Multiply the result by the square root of the width. That number, in cubic units, is the volume.
by measuring the amount of water it displaces
The volume of an irregularly shaped solid can be measured by placing the solid in a known quantity of water in a container with measurement markings. Take the new volume and find the difference between this and the old volume. This is the volume of your irregularly shaped solid.
Yes you can.You can measure the solid by putting it into a gradruated cylinder.The height of the water shows you how much volume the solid has. fun is at www.qyue.webs.com
For mass, you would use a triple-beam balance. For volume, you would either use a graduated cylinder (for liquids), calculate the displacement with a graduated cylinder (for an odd-shaped solid), or calculate it using the equation for volume (for a regularly-shaped solid).
A balance is used to measure the mass of an irregularly shaped solid.
mass over volume
Submerge it in water and measure how much the water rises.
Put solid in a container ; fill container with water to a known container volume; take object out of container and read the remaining volume. subtract this remaining volumefrom the known volume. This result is the volume of the regular or irregular shaped solid.
To measure the density of a regularly shaped solid, common tools used include a balance or scale to measure the mass, and a ruler or caliper to measure the dimensions (length, width, and height) of the solid. With this information, the density can be calculated by dividing the mass by the volume of the solid, which can be determined by multiplying the three dimensions together.