Sunday, November 7, 2010

Ch 11_2 #1

Compare buoyancy of the barge in salt and fresh waters.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Check through your calculations; you may have made a rounding error or used the wrong number of significant figures.

i always got that and i tried everything.
my answer is 0.789733 what should i put in!!

Anonymous said...

.824 is the answer

Prof. Tsybychev said...

0.6 m is the height of the submerged part of the barge. What is volume in terms of area and the height. Find a formula in terms of the height rthaer than volume. Then apply the density for the fresh water using same equation to find the submerged height in fresh water.