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the weight of the ship is equal to the amount of water displaced
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How much water must a ship displace in order to float?
An amount that weighs as much as the ship does.
Data on making metal float?
You must displace as much water at the metal weighs. So there is equillibrium between the metal and the water.
How much water should a girl weighing 500N displace in order to float on water give reason?
20,000 cubic kilometres
Why do ships float when they are denser than water?
Quick and dirty answer: Because they are built to be essentially hollow, they are much larger in volume than the water they displace, and so in effect they are much less dense over all than the water they displace.
How does a 1.3 billion pound boat float?
It must displace as much weight in water as it weighs (roughly 600 cubic meters of water). These boats have huge hulls, so can easily displace this much without beginning to sink.
How the airplane float?
The same way anything floats, by displacing an amount of water that weighs as much as it does. Airplanes that are meant to float on water typically either have boat-like hulls or floats whose purpose is to displace enough water to allow the airplane to float.
what allows aluminum boats to float?
The boats displace water in such a way that they remain afloat. Hence why most boats have a V hull shape. This allows them to displace the water and remain afloat, if on the other hand you put to much in a boat it will eventually sink.
How a ship keeps a float?
It basically wants to push (displace) water away from underneath it. Since the volume of water is always much larger than the actual ship, it will never be able to displace enough water to sink. That is - unless it's damaged below the water-line so water can flood in.
How can you predict if something will sink or float?
An object will sink if it weighs more than the water it pushes away, and an object will float if it weighs less than the water it pushes away. The Greek mathematician Archimedes discovered that the amount of water displaced by an object depends on the mass of that object. Mass is the amount of matter in a substance, and dense objects have more mass than less dense objects. Dense objects that do not displace much water will sink, while less dense objects that displace a lot of water will float.
How much weight does your boat displace?
The Joke: Not much it sank The truth: A floating boat will displace the same weight in water that it weighs. So the real question is how much does it displace or how much does it weigh
How much fluid does an object need to displace to float?
A volume equal to its own weight (Archimedes' Principle).
Does a glass float or sink in water?
It depends on the shape of the fork and the material from which it is made. Most non-metal (wood, plastic) forks will float. Metal forks will sink unless they are shaped to have a large enough surface area on the bottom.
