Monday, January 26, 2009

Archimedes

What is Archimedes' principle? How does it relate to buoyant force?

6 comments:

streckfuss said...

Archimedes principles describes the magnitude of a buoyant force. Any object placed in any liquid will only sink until the weight of the displaced fluid equals the weight of the object. It is pretty interesting.

Anonymous said...

Any object, wholly or partly immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. That's Archemedis principle. It pretty much makes the rule for bouyancy and stuff.

jacob ochsner said...

It describes the magnitude of a boyant force. It decribes how boyant forces allow objects to float. It describes how boats float.

aaron peterson said...

"Any object, wholly or partly immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object."
This principle explains how to be determine the bouyant force.

amanda said...

Archimedes principle states that any object, wholly or partly immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. It relates to buoyant force. It relates because they both deal with objects staying afloat.

bertsch said...

It describes the magnitude of a buoyant force. The object will sink unless the wieght is displaced.