Combined Science GCSE
Displacement technique
What Displacement technique means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Displacement technique
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Reference: AQA
A way of finding the volume of an irregularly shaped object by recording the starting volume of water in a measuring cylinder, lowering the object in fully, and recording the new volume.
Topics that use Displacement technique
- Density of materials (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Changes of state and energy transfer
- Density
- Density and particle spacing
- Floating and sinking
- Mass
- Particle arrangement and motion in solids, liquids and gases
- Particle model of matter
- Particle spacing and arrangement
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