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How much water should a girl weighing 500N displace in order to float on water give reason?

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How much water does a large ship displace to float?

the weight of the ship is equal to the amount of water displaced


How much water should a girl weighing 600N displace in order to float on water?

The displaced water should also weigh 450 N.


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You must displace as much water at the metal weighs. So there is equillibrium between the metal and the water.


How does a 1.3 billion pound boat float?

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How much air do you need to float 1 lbs in water?

To float 1 pound in water, you would need to displace 1 pound of water. This is because of Archimedes' principle, which states that the buoyant force acting on an object is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. So you would need to displace enough water to counteract the weight of the 1 pound object and make it float.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Why wood and styrofoam float?

Wood and styrofoam float because they are less dense than water, which causes them to displace enough water to create an upward force called buoyancy. The buoyant force counteracts the gravitational force acting on the object, allowing it to float on the water's surface.


Does things sink in water if they have higher or lower densities than water?

Objects with higher densities than water will sink, while objects with lower densities will float. Density is a measure of how much mass is packed into a given volume, so a denser object will displace less water and sink, while a less dense object will displace more water and float.