Zusammenfassung der Ressource
BUOYANCY
- force exerted on an object that is wholly or partly immersed in a fluid.
- Differences in pressure acting on opposite sides of an object immersed in a static fluid.
- B or FB
- Vector Quantity
- SI unit is newton [N].
- Archimedes' Principle The magnitude of the buoyant force on an object is equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces.
- mathematician, physicist, and inventor Archimedes
- Discovered by him while bathing
- Affected by...
- density of fluid
- volume of fluid displaced
- Acceleration due to gravity