BUOYANCY

BUOYANCY

1. 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.

2. B or FB

3. Vector Quantity

4. SI unit is newton [N].

5. Archimedes' Principle The magnitude of the buoyant force on an object is equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces.

6. mathematician, physicist, and inventor Archimedes

   • Discovered by him while bathing

7. Affected by...

   • density of fluid
   • volume of fluid displaced
   • Acceleration due to gravity

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