Question

Which medium (the glass, water or diamond), is the most dense and how do you know

Answer 1

from least to great: water, glass, diamond . I got it from my prof XD

Answer 2

Thank you

Answer 3

Use the quote to answer the question:

“The natives are only too happy to share…for a copper kettle and a few toys, as beads and hatchets, they will sell you a whole Country…”


Which European power was able to purchase a valuable island with “a few toys”?

Answer 4

The British

The Dutch

The Spanish

The French

Answer 5

diamond
lets discuss it by taking light.
when light passes from water to air then it faces refraction and little bit reflection
when light passes from glass to water then little bit total internal reflection takes place
but when light travels from diamond to air then total intenal reflection takes place heavily. and we know total internal takes place when light travels from denser to rarer material.diamond shines due to total internal reflection and glass also shine but not as glass and water also but not as these two.so diamond is more dense then glass and then water

Answer 6

Okay, thank you

Answer 7

Which European power was able to purchase a valuable island with “a few toys”?
It is a apocryhal story associated with the eventual occupation of the Dutch in Manhatten and New York. History should not perpetuate such stories unless they can be substantiated.

Answer 8

Refractive index and density of a material do not necessarily correlate with each other. While, in general, increasing density means increasing refractive index, it's not always the case and so it's probably not the best way to demonstrate the difference in densities between water, glass, and diamond.

For example, many oils are less dense than water, but have a greater refractive index.

Total internal reflection occurs only when light is incident on an interface from low index to higher index, which is not necessarily correlated with material density.