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An object will float on water if it has less density than the water.
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Why does a coin sink but a cruise ship floats?
An object will float on water if it has less density than the water.
What describes why a cruise ship floats?
It displaces an equal or greater amount of water than its own weight.
What best describes why a cruise ship floats?
It displaces an equal or greater amount of water than its own weight.
Why a coin sinks while a ship floats?
Ultraoversimplifying it, the coin is solid metal all the way through and weighs more than its volume of water, the ship has a large space filled with air inside it resulting in the weight of the ship and cargo being less than the weight of the volume of water it occupies.This is called buoyancy: the coin has negative buoyancy and sinks, the ship has positive buoyancy and floats.
What is more dense than water but floats on water?
a ship
The reason a ship floats is because?
The basic reason that a ship floats is that the enclosed volume in the ship's hull is greater than the volume of water which has the same mass as the ship.
Why does a ship floats on water answer based on archemedis principel?
Weight of ship = weight of (displaced) water.
Can you take bottle water with us when you get off the cruise ship in ports?
can you take abottle of water with you when you get off the cruise ship at the bahamas
Why does iron ship floats in water?
Because the weight of the water that they displace is greater than the weight of the ship.
Differences between a ship and a submarine?
a ship floats on the water and a submarine can go underwater and on top of the water
Why a stone sink in water but a ship floats on water surface?
A stone has a greater density than water; a ship, less.
What does not affect the level a cargo ship floats in water?
Tides.
