Answer the following:
1. What is buoyancy?
2. What is displacement?
3. How much does water weigh per gallon and per cubic foot?
4. Explain how a ship made of steel can float.
5. How many gallons of water must be displaced in order for a 25 ton steel boat to float? Cubic feet?
6. If a ship uses 35 cubic feet of steel and it displaced 295 cubic feet of water, will it float?
Steel 495.0 lb/cu. ft
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1. What is buoyancy?
2. What is displacement?
3. How much does water weigh per gallon and per cubic foot?
4. Explain how a ship made of steel can float.
5. How many gallons of water must be displaced in order for a 25 ton steel boat to float? Cubic feet?
6. If a ship uses 35 cubic feet of steel and it displaced 295 cubic feet of water, will it float?
Steel 495.0 lb/cu. ft
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