buoyancy

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buoyancy

(1) The degree to which a body floats in a liquid.
(2) The force exerted by a fluid on a floating body, which opposes the force of gravity and is equal to the  body’s density.
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This emphasis on defining terms like mass, density, pressure and volume before learning Archimedes' principle is not restricted to fourth to seventh graders alone.
Teaching Archimedes' principle: to sixth graders without teaching mass, density, pressure, volume or buoyancy
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Galileo was clearly keeping the scaling theory a secret for the eventuality of a situation like this one, and his new view of Archimedes' principle was completely beyond the abilities of his opponents to answer.
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This important discovery later became known as Archimedes' Principle.
Buoyancy
To demonstrate Archimedes' principle - ``The buoyant force on an object is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object'' - his class builds aluminum foil boats, sinks them with marbles, and figures out displacement of the water by the weight of the marbles.
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