Coke Can Report

In finding the density of a Coke Can, I used two different methods; the overflow can method, and the measuring method. The procedures varied in the way I found the volume, for I found the mass with a scale in both procedures. In procedure B I measured the volume of a coke can with a ruler, however I measured how much water dripped out of the overflow can to find the volume in method A. Each came out with different results, but both led me to a similar conclusion. The measuring method came out with a slightly greater density of 1.397 grams per a milliliter, and the overflow can method came out too 1.068 grams per a milliliter. However, I was able to conclude from both tests that the Coke Can was just slightly denser than water, being that it had a density greater than one.
However, in this method the difference between the two volumes recorded was smaller than the difference recorded with the coke can: precisely by ten milliliters. However, the density found from the measuring method still came out slightly greater with 1.3330 grams per a milliliter; whereas, the density from the overflow can method came out to approximately 1.047. Proving that the diet coke can could float slightly over the surface of water, alongside the coke can. However, the coke can was found to be slightly more dense, for sugar water in coke is denser than artificial sweetners in diet coke. The sources of error in the Water Displacement method were mostly due to the precision of measurement location on the graduated cylinder. Since the graduated cylinder only measured to the nearest milliliter, we had to estimate to the 0.5. This in turn, caused our answers to be slightly estimated. In addition, we rounded our mass to the nearest thousandth place, consequently the density was rounded