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pamdang | 14:21 Wed 10th Sep 2008 | Science
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What causes the graduated cylinder to be a more accurate measuring tool than a beaker?
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In both cases you are using a uniform cylinder to measure a volume by measuring the height of liquid in the cylinder. If you can measure the height to an accuracy of 0.5mm, then the volume is accurate to 0.5 * pi * r^2. So, the smaller r is, the more accurate the volume measurement is.
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