NAME ______________________________________________________________________________________PERIOD_______ DENSITY AND INDIANA JONES Background: In the film clip from “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, Indiana Jones tried to steal a gold idol without triggering the booby trap -- and failed. He thought he could replace the gold idol on the pedestal with a bag of sand of roughly equal size (volume). However, the mechanism that set the booby trap was determined by the mass of the sand. Why didn’t his plan work? SHOW WORK AND FORMULAS USED AND INCLUDE UNITS. ROUND to hundredths 1. The density of gold is 19.30 Kg/L. If the idol had a volume of 2 L, what was the idol’s mass, in Kilograms? 2. Indiana wanted to swap the idol with a bag of sand that had the same mass = USE YOUR ANSWER FROM #1. If the density of sand is 1.56 Kg/L What volume of sand, in Liters (L), did he need to use? 3. Let's consider the volume of something that you are familiar with. If he carried the sand in 2L soda bottles, how many bottles of sand would he have needed? Is this reasonable for him to carry in? Explain. 4. How many pounds of sand would he have needed to equal the pounds of gold in the idol? Use the mass from Question #2 above and these conversion factors: Kg sand 2.2 pounds = pounds of sand 1 kg 5. Based on all of your calculations, what BIG MISTAKE did Indiana Jones make when he tried to steal the idol? BE COMPLETE in your answer--- DO NOT JUST WRITE THAT HE DIDN’T BRING ENOUGH SAND. EXPLAIN!
