(Journal Article) Salmon Landi, Jr creator Carvalho, Thiago Milograno de | Souza, Alexandre Divino de text Washington : American Association of Physics Teachers , February 2024 monographic eng

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114–115p. Abstract: Density is an important property in various fields; for example, it is used in the quality control of chemical and food products, and in the determination of the alcohol content in beers. In medicine, an anomalous urine density may indicate certain diseases, or an anomalous blood density, anemia. Among the most modern instruments for determining the density of liquids, the vibrating-tube densimeter is the most widely used, mainly in the petroleum industry.1 In this paper, we propose an experimental activity, which is appropriate for high school and first-year university physics students, in which the density of various liquids, such as saturated aqueous NaCl, tap water, soy oil, or 70% alcohol, is determined. ***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________*** Measuring instruments| Newtonian mechanics| Fictitious forces| Educational institutions| Buoyancy 0031-921X https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0107397 https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0107397 240508 20240508090428.0