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Why are ships built to displace more water than necessary for them to float?
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-- In order to be able to load the ship with revenue-producing cargo without sinking it
-- In order to avoid sinking it if an obese passenger or crew member comes aboard,
or a large fish is caught and stowed.
-- In order to have it ride high in the water so that heavy seas do not wash over the deck.
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How can you make a piece of iron metal float?
if u made the piece ofmetal hollow it can float unless its density is larger than the water densityANSWER:If you make it displace more water than what makes it sink, it will float, as in a ships hull. If you make pontoons out of it, it will float. If you make an enclosed shape that contains enough air, it will float. There should be less density in the item than the water.
Who was the first scienctist to figure out how steel ships float on water?
archemedes
Does a sixty ton ship mean that it weights sixty tons?
Yes, it does (although if it's only 60 tons, it would hardly qualify as a 'ship'- more of a 'boat'!) All ships & boats displace their own weight in water- so for example, a boat of 60 tons would displace 60 tons of water when it was afloat.
Why ship is floating?
An object in water displaces its weight in water. If its volume is greater than the volume of water displaced this way, it floats. Ships, despite being made of heavier materials, utilize their size and their relative empty insides to float this way.
Why do ships float but not steel cubes?
What sinks or what floats, is nothing more than how much does an object displace. For example a box of plastic, weighs 1 kilogram, but displaces 1.5 kg of water, it will float. So if a cube weighs 1 kg, and displaces only a 500 ml of water, thus it is heavier than water, and will sink. By the way, they have cement tunnel sections that are floated out into the ocean, to make sea floor tunnels. When they flood them with water, they will sink to the bottom where they are placed in specific locations and joined to others. Then tons of dirt and or rock are piled on top of them, to make sure that when they now form a tunnel, and the water is pumped out, they will not float but remain on the bottom. So as you can see, does not matter what something is made out of. If it displaces more water than its weight, it floats.
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 do they get large cruise ships into the water after building?
The ships are built in drydocks which can be flooded to float the ships out.
Why do boats float and ships sink?
Provided the boats and the ships displace their weight in water without the water coming inboard, they will float and not sink. A boat made of wood is likely to float even when full of water because wood tends to float. It is all to do with displacement and freeboard.
How ship float on water?
Ships, whether made of wood or metal, have a lighter specific gravity than water. Ships actually displace the water rather than floating on it.
Where are cruise ships built?
I am pretty sure cruise ships are built in dry docks where they can be flooded to float the ships. This is something i saw on Discovery channel on tv. Once the ship is complete they can flood the dock to float the ship to the ocean.
How is it impossible for extremely heavy objects like large ships and barges to stay a float?
It is not impossible. Ships do stay afloat. <><><> While they ARE heavy, they weigh less than the water they displace.
Would a large metal ship float in the same volume of fresh water?
Metal ships are built to float.
Why do large cruise ships float in water?
This is because they displace a volume of water which has a weight equal to their weights. The upward upthrust is equal to their weights (upthrust = weight of fluid displaced)
How buant is iron?
Iron is almost 8 times heavier than water so it is not buoyant at all. Ships float because they are just a shell and can displace a large amount of water.
Why do ships float in deep water?
Because they weight of the water they displace is more than they weigh themselves. in another way: for something to float the density of the object has to be lesser than the density of the liquid it's submerged into. And although ships are heavy they aren't as heavy as a lump of water shaped just like the ship would be.
How can you make a piece of iron metal float?
if u made the piece ofmetal hollow it can float unless its density is larger than the water densityANSWER:If you make it displace more water than what makes it sink, it will float, as in a ships hull. If you make pontoons out of it, it will float. If you make an enclosed shape that contains enough air, it will float. There should be less density in the item than the water.
Why metal ships will float?
They displace water and are filled with air. For example, a solid block of steel wouldn't float, even though it displaces water because it has no air in it either. Wood floats because it has millions of pours that contain air. Water logged wood doesn't float because those same air pockets are flooded with water instead of air.
