1-2 Describing Matter

MATTER anything that has mass and volume

VOLUME the space an object occupies meas. in diff. ways graduated cylinder can be used to meas. liquid vol. - read bottom of meniscus Some solids – use length x width x height

MASS the quantity of matter in an object Does not vary w/ location meas. using a balance – electronic or mechanical usually meas. in grams or kilograms diff. balances may give readings w/ diff. precision - the more decimal places, the more precise

WEIGHT the force produced by gravity acting on a mass diff. from mass meas. in newtons can vary from place to place meas. using a scale Proportional to mass

QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTIONS describe matter using words light heavy small large blue hot

QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTIONS describe matter using numbers with units 35 lbs. 15 grams 18 km 20 o C

QUANTITY something that has magnitude or size

UNIT a standard used when measuring a quantity (label) Measurements must contain both a quantity (number) and a unit.

SI system (formerly metric system) uses 7 basic quantities to meas. everything (p. 12) Learn first 5 quantities, symbols, units, and abbreviations.

Base units can be modified with prefixes to make them larger or smaller Mass of dime meas. in grams diameter meas. in cm or mm thickness meas. in mm or  m

Learn the table on p. 13 Add the following prefixes: Mega – M – 10 6 – 1,000,000 1 megameter (Mm) = 1,000,000m Giga - G ,000,000,000 1 gigameter (Gm) = 1,000,000,000 m

Learn the table on p. 13 Add the following prefixes: micro –  – – 1/1,000,000 1 micrometer (  m) = m nano – n – – 1/1,000,000,000 1 nanometer (nm) = m

CONVERSION FACTOR mathematical expression that relates two units used to convert metric units

Easiest method always put a 1 w/ the largest unit. The other unit will always be some positive power of 10

Examples: Convert the following 15 kg = g 7.75 m = km 48.7 mg = hg

DERIVED UNITS units created from combinations of the seven base units. volume = length x width x height dm x dm x dm = dm 3 1 dm 3 = 1 liter = 1000 ml = 1000 cm 3 liter and ml are most common units for volume newton = kg x m/s 2 energy (kinetic) = 1/2 x mass x velocity 2 = kg x m 2 /s 2

DENSITY the ratio of mass to volume D = m/v On a graph of mass vs. vol. The graph is a straight line -slope is the density density for any substance is constant and can be used to identify substs.

PHYSICAL PROPERTY any property of matter that can be measured without changing its chemical nature color mass volume density boiling point

PHYSICAL CHANGE a change that affects only physical properties boiling breaking painting freezing

CHEMICAL PROPERTY a property of matter that can only be identified by trying to cause a chemical change reacts w/ oxygen reacts w/ water does not react w/ water decomposes