Archimedes's Principle
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Archimedes's Principle
A rule of physics which holds that the buoyant force of an object immersed in fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. It is named after the Greekmathematician, physicist, and inventor Archimedes (c. 287-212 B.C.), who first identified it.
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