Troup County Matter Unit Form

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in this video we're going to focus on states of matter at least the most common ones that you typically encounter and so these include solids liquids and gases but first what is matter matter you can think of it as stuff it's basically anything that has mass and takes up space matter is composed of individual tiny particles known as atoms and matter can be classified into one of these three different categories now let's talk about solids a solid has a definite shape so if you think of a rock a rock has a fixed shape i know this is a terrible visual illustration of a rock it has a fixed shape and a fix of volume liquids on the other hand they're fluid they have no definite shape but they do have a definite volume let's say if i have a cup that looks like this and in it let's say we have 50 milliliters of water so this cup has a definite volume of fluid now if i take that liquid and pour it into a cup with a different shape the volume of water will not change it will still be 50 millili