1. Add a weighing machine and a cutter from the apparatus menu and weigh the cutter by clicking on it (W₁). Observe the change in the observations menu. The cutter is weighed to account for its weight in future measurements of other components added to the cutter.

2. Add a soil sample from the apparatus menu and level its surface by clicking on it. This helps obtain a uniform soil sample for testing.

3. Click on the cutter to move it onto the soil sample for cutting.

4. Add a dolly and a rammer from the apparatus menu, and click on the rammer to drive the cutter into the soil.

5. Click on the cutter filled with soil to move it to the weighing machine and weigh it. This gives us the combined mass of the cutter and the wet soil. We can easily obtain the weight of the wet soil alone by simply subtracting the weight of the cutter as is visible from the values in the observations table.

6. We also obtain the volume of the soil by simply measuring its height (h) in the cutter and using the cutter's internal radius (r) in the cylinder volume formula given by: V = PI _ r² _ h

7. Check the observation table. The table presents the observations (including water content, click here to learn more) for different types of soil as different soils have different textures and densities.

Note: The user does not need to enter any values in the Observation column. The observations and calculations are generated automatically during the simulation.