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Is this true...?
"To get the weight by measurement, you calculate to get the volume. For steel the multiplier is .283. For Brass it is .307. For aluminum it is .100."
and what about copper
1 Answer
- 6 years ago
Yeah this is essentially true. What you have is densities in pounds per cubic inches meaning that for steel, each square inch contains .283 pounds. You could solve for the weight of a metal solid by measuring for its volume (by water displacement likely) and plugging it in to a simple equation. For example, if you got a volume of 10 sq in of steel:
( X ibs/ 10 in sq) = (.283 ibs/ 1 in sq.) ----> cross multiply ----> X= weight of the solid steel = 2.32 ibs
The density of copper is .324 ibs/ in sq
