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In this installment of Hot Science we present three questions that may help you to better understand buoyancy. The first is a kind of warm-up question, dealing with general buoyancy principles.

It explains how objects float based on the displacement of water and the balance between gravitational force and buoyant ...

Here we have a toy submarine floating in a bathtub. It's a really fancy sub, made out of steel. The sub weighs one pound. When completely submerged, it displaces two pounds of water. What could ...

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Buoyancy affects the pipelay process, both in positive and negative ways. In the water, the pipe weighs less if it is filled with air, which puts less stress on the pipelay barge. But once in ...

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