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=Team BEAST Cube Experiment=

-Team Members:
Thomas (Team Leader) Clayton Andy

-Materials and Methods:
-Find mass of cube -Find volume of cube -Find density of cubes -Go to websites to find density of materials -Label actual material in table
 * Ten Cubes
 * Magnets
 * Electric Scale
 * Ruler

-Hypothesis:
Table 1: This table is the first guess of what the cubes are made of.
 * **Cube Number** || **Guess of Cube Type** ||
 * Cube 1 || copper ||
 * Cube 2 || aluminum ||
 * Cube 3 || Brass ||
 * Cube 4 || pp ||
 * Cube 5 || Bronze ||
 * Cube 6 || Balso ||
 * Cube 7 || Nylon ||
 * Cube 8 || Pine ||
 * Cube 9 || Oak ||
 * Cube 10 || Acrillic ||

-Quantitative Data:
Table2: This table shows all the measurements of the cubes and the correct materials that they are made of.
 * Cubes || Length (cm) || Width (cm) || Height (cm) || Volume (mL) || Mass (g) || Density (g/cc) ||
 * Cube 1- Brass || 2.5 || 2.5 || 2.5 || 15.6 || 132.6 || 8.5 ||
 * Cube 2- Aluminum || 2.5 || 2.5 || 2.5 || 15.6 || 45.2 || 2.9 ||
 * Cube 3- Copper || 2.5 || 2.5 || 2.5 || 15.6 || 138.8 || 8.9 ||
 * Cube 4- PP || 2.5 || 2.5 || 2.5 || 15.6 || 21.8 || 1.4 ||
 * Cube 5- Bronze || 2.5 || 2.5 || 2.5 || 15.6 || 148.2 || 9.5 ||
 * Cube 6- Balso || 2.5 || 2.5 || 2.5 || 15.6 || 4.7 || 0.3 ||
 * Cube 7- Nylon || 2.5 || 2.5 || 2.5 || 15.6 || 18.7 || 1.2 ||
 * Cube 8- Pine || 2.5 || 2.5 || 2.5 || 15.6 || 7.8 || 0.5 ||
 * Cube 9- Oak || 2.5 || 2.5 || 2.5 || 15.6 || 9.4 || 0.6 ||
 * Cube 10- Acrillic || 2.5 || 2.5 || 2.5 || 15.6 || 17.2 || 1.1 ||

-Qualitative Data:
Table 3: This is data involving observations of the 10 cubes.
 * **Cube #** || **Observations** ||
 * cube 1 || heavy, metal cube. Coppery color. ||
 * cube 2 || metal. Very light for a metal. Silvery color. ||
 * cube 3 || heavy, metal cube. Gold In color. ||
 * cube 4 || black plastic with defined grain ||
 * cube 5 || heavy coppery colored metal ||
 * cube 6 || light wood without much grain ||
 * cube 7 || light white plastic with an extremely defined grain. ||
 * cube 8 || tan wood ||
 * cube 9 || dark wood with an extremely defined grain ||
 * cube 10 || hard clear plastic ||

Research on Cube Possibilities (Citations Also): Jones, Larry. "Density Notes." __Density Notes__. 3/02/07. Pickens County School Distrct. 14 Sep 2007 <[|http://www.sciencebyjones.com/density_notes.htm>.] "Lenntech Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)." __Polyvinyl_Chloride_ (PVC)__. 2007. Lenntech. 20 Sep 2007 <[|http://www.lenntech.com/Polyvinyl-Chloride-PVC.htm>.] Unkown, Unkown. "Specific gravity/density of metals." __Substance/specific gravity__. 11 January 2006. Reade. 20 Sep 2007 <[|http://www.reade.com/Particle_Briefings/spec_gra.html>.]

-Analysis
Explanation as to how you came to these decisions.

Data collected from table two shows what we know each cube is made of. Each material has a certain density, so once the densities of each cube were known, it was possible to discover the exact type of material the cube was.