course phy 202
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Mr.Smith, I have been working on our experiment analysis, I just got to the part about the inner diameter of the cylinder. you said we could determine the diameter by the spacing of the millimeter markings - I am not sure exactly how to do this. Our group measured from the center of the hole to each mark but I am not sure how to get the diameter from that information. Could you explain this to me.
The volume of a cylinder is the product of its cross-sectional area and its altitude.
The volume of this cylinder between any two marks it just the difference in the milliliter markings; that volume is in cm^3.
Your measurements will tell you the distance between any two marks in cm.
So you know the volume and altitude of the cylinder and can therefore find its cross-sectional area.