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Giancoli's Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Edition

10-2: Density and Specific Gravity
10-3 to 10-6: Pressure; Pascal's Principle
10-7: Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle
10-8 to 10-10: Fluid Flow, Bernoulli's Equation
10-11: Viscosity
10-12: Flow in Tubes; Poiseuille's Equation
10-13: Surface Tension and Capillarity
10-14: Pumps; the Heart

Question by Giancoli, Douglas C., Physics: Principles with Applications, 7th Ed., ©2014, Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Inc., New York.
Problem 1
Q

The approximate volume of the granite monolith known as El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (Fig.10–47) is about 108 m310^8 \textrm{ m}^3. What is its approximate mass?

Problem 1.
Figure 10-47.
A
3×1011 kg3 \times 10^{11} \textrm{ kg}
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This is Giancoli Answers with Mr. Dychko. Density is mass divided by volume and we know the density of granite in this table [10-1] on page 261 and we can solve for mass by multiplying both sides by V then switch the sides around and you end up with mass equals density times volume. So that's 2.7 times 10 to the 3 kilograms per cubic meter— density of granite— times about 1 times 10 to the 8 cubic meters— volume of this El Capitan rock in Yosemite park— and you get 3 times 10 to the 11 kilograms.

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