Physics GCSE
Displacement method
What Displacement method means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Displacement method
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Used for an irregular solid: record the water level in a measuring cylinder, lower the object in fully, and take the rise in level as its volume.
Topics that use Displacement method
- Materials (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Choosing appropriate apparatus
- Density
- Resolution and precision
- Unit consistency
- Accurate recording with units
- Measuring volume of a regular solid
- Reducing random error by repeating
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