A measuring cylinder is used to measure the volume of a quantity of water. Which measuring technique would not improve the accuracy of the measurement?

The diagram shows four identical spheres placed between two wooden blocks on a ruler.What is the diameter of one sphere?

A cook wants to prepare some food to be cooked by 1.15p.m. He uses an oven with an automatic timer that can be set to switch on and off at certain times. The oven needs to be switched on for 2 hours 10 minutes. At which time does the oven need to switch on?

The diagram shows a measuring cylinder used to measure the volume of a small stone.What is the volume of the stone?

Diagram 1 shows a measuring cylinder containing water. Five identical steel balls are now lowered into the measuring cylinder. Diagram 2 shows the new water level in the cylinder. What is the volume of each steel ball?

A stopwatch is used to time a runner in a race. The diagrams show the stopwatch at the start and at the end of a lap of the race. How long did the runner take to finish the lap of the race?

Drops of water are dripping steadily from a tap (faucet). The diagram shows a measuring cylinder which has collected 120 drops of water. How many drops in total will have been collected when the measuring cylinder reads 10cm³ ?

An object has a mass of 50kg. The gravitational field strength on Earth is 10.0N/ kg. The gravitational field strength on a distant planet is 4.0N/ kg. What is the weight of the object on Earth, and what is its weight on the distant planet?

Weight is an example of which quantity?

The mass of an object is measured on Earth. The mass is 5.0 kg. The object is taken to the Moon. The mass of the object is measured on the Moon. What is the mass of the object on the Moon?

Which statement about mass or weight is correct?

Which instrument is used to compare the masses of objects?

A customer goes to a market and buys some rice. The stallholder pours rice into a dish that hangs from a spring balance. He records the reading on the spring balance. The customer then buys some pasta and the stallholder notices that the reading on the spring balance, with just pasta in the dish, is the same as it was with just rice in the dish. The rice and the pasta must have the same

A 1 kg sample of aluminium is stored in a laboratory. In a different laboratory, in the same town, there is a 1 kg sample of iron. Which quantity must these two samples always have in common?

A geologist places a small rock on the left-hand pan of a balance. The two pans are level as shown when masses with a total weight of 23 N are placed on the right-hand pan. Take the weight of 1.0 kg to be 10 N. What is the mass of the small rock?

Diagram 1 shows a measuring cylinder containing water. Diagram 2 shows the same measuring cylinder and water after 10 identical solid glass spheres have been added. The mass of one of the spheres is 10 g. What is the density of the glass from which the spheres are made?

The diagram shows a cuboid block made from a metal of density 2.5 g/ cm³. What is the mass of the block?

The diagram shows an experiment to find the density of a liquid. What is the density of the liquid?

The mass of a piece of metal is 1200 g. A measuring cylinder contains 150 cm³ of water. The piece of metal is put into the measuring cylinder. The water level rises to 250 cm³ and covers the metal. What is the density of the metal?