Add 1 teaspoon of salt to the second container, two teaspoons to the third container, and so on. Locate some objects that barely float in water, such as a paper clip, a small plastic ball, and a pen.
Place the objects, one at a time, in the first container and observe how long they float in the water. Dry off each object and place it into the other containers in -the same manner, observing carefully how long they remain afloat in the water. Run three trials for each object in each container, recording all your information carefully and then graphing it.
There are hundreds of science fair projects dealing with physical science topics. Use your imagination to try to think of others you may enjoy doing. Manage My Favorites. Excerpted from. This book contains great information for different kinds of science fair projects. Buy the Book. FutureFit IN. Will a bottlecap really float in salt water? Students will learn about density and surface tension with this printable science activity. That is easy enough to calculate. A cubic foot of steel is.
So divide 80 by. Multiply that by 64 and this will be the number of pounds of upward buoyant force. You see that it makes quite a difference, although you would still be unable to lift it yourself. But, what I am asking about current 80 tons is meaning that, It is already calculated by referring to volume. Now I want to know the weight difference when 80 tons bar is gone down into the sea 1,m salt water. I live near Lake Ontario so if you bring your yacht around so we can go for a spin we can answer that question empirically.
The tough part of the question is the shape of the hull, most importantly the area of the hull at the waterline. If it were a simple rectangular prism the answer would be fairly simple, but with a tapered hull it is much more difficult.
However we can determine a maximum draught, with the actual draught being somewhat less, by assuming the area of the intersection of the hull and the waterline is constant, even though we know that it is probably tapered somewhat as you go deeper. What we know is the volume of the hull below the water line in both salt and fresh water. In salt water it is , pounds divided by 64 pounds per cubic foot yielding cubic feet.
In fresh water the volume would be greater because the density of fresh water is only So with our rectangular shaped hull each cubic foot changes the draught by. That would be the maximum. So it would take a little more than 68 tons of lift to raise 80 tons of steel in sea water.
Hi Chris, Thanks for the response and the explanation. Many thanks again, Mark. The Canal was built all the way to the Niagara instead of the Eastern end of Lake Ontario which would have cost much less because of fear of attack from Canada.
This was around the time of the war of They are a technical depths and cold temperatures and are protected as heritage sites and war graves. It would also depend on how fast you want to pull the boat.
I expect that the size of the tugboat required would therefore depend very much on the conditions — an enclosed harbour on a windless day would require less power, and so on. If there were wind, then the surface area of both boats would be a factor, as would the direction and speed of the wind.
Thank you very much for helping me clear things up, I had a project dealing with salt water, bouyancy, and density. This post helped me a lot with understanding these topics. A car ferry is rectangular with dimensions 15m wide, 90m long and has a mass of 2. When unloaded the centre of gravity is located 2m above the base of the ferry. While unloaded, will the ferry be stable? If 60 cars with an average mass per car of kg are loaded on the ferry, how much further will it sink into the water?
I have worked out that it will be stable but not sure how to calculate how far it has sunk into the water. Based on those dimensions, the ferry being 15 x 90m presents a profile of 1, square metres to the water. The 60 cars weight 90, kg which is 90 metric tons. In fresh water, each cubic metre weighs 1 metric ton so 90 metric tons of will displace 90 cubic metres of water. If the 1, square metre bottom sank a full metre, that would displace 1, cubic metres. Clearly it will sink much less than that!
The weight of ferry is metric tons. Ok, so I have got this homework to weigh an aluminium block, pencil box, brass ornament and wooden block in air mg , normal water and salt water so how am i supposed to do that. A scale which allows you to hang an object from it would work, I think. How you handle this would depend on what level of precision and accuracy is required. For a given object, the scale would read less when the object is in fresh water, and even less when in salt water, than in the air.
The difference in weight in air vs. Salt water is more dense so the weight displaced would be greater. Of course, if the object floats then the weight in water will be zero. Floating occurs when the object displaces a greater weight of water than it itself weighs.
Good Afternoon, Mr. Sullivan, Could you also answer the question i mentioned in my comment? It is kind of weird, actually! The reason your math comes out with an error at the end of the post is because adding salt or anything that dissolves to water does not change the volume of the water.
Hence 1 litre of water plus 0. Thanks for the comment. I thought something like that was going on. I suppose there is a limit to that phenomenon, as at some point the capacity of water to accommodate the salt has to end.
Chris, Yes! You are right — there is a limit, when there is so much salt in that any extra will no longer dissolve. Then the surplus sits in suspension, making the water cloudy instead of clear, and this results in an increase in volume. Hai, thank you for the posting.. I have a question..
Assuming we put hydrogen in buoyant.. I think not. The force of buoyancy requires displacement of water. The amount of force depends on the displacement, so to support a 75kg person one would need to displace about 75l. So on earth, in fresh or salt water, with a normal human, there is no possibility of walking on water unaided. OK copper has a density of 8. That would require You would then need a little bit more to actually float, the amount depending on how high you want the flotation volume to stick out of the water.
The water would have to be much denser than mercury or lead for this tiny volume displacement to supply enough buoyancy to support their body weight. You cannot dissolve enough salt, or anything else, into water to make it so dense. Hi Chris loved your article. I have some questions regarding sea water and its current. Calculating this sort of thing with any accuracy is in the realm of fluid dynamics, which is an engineering discipline requiring advanced mathematics.
Would I increase the size of the board by 2. Does it work that way? Is there an equation to solve for this? Any help would be appreciated.
I think that would be correct. Using more dense foam would make things worse. If you used foam that was about 2. A minor update to this. In practice, it hardly matters, but if you are writing a PADI exam, it certainly does. So I thought I would note that here for all those who might be affected by it. Not to worry, the tests are multiple choice and no other answers are so close it would matter, although it is a little off-putting when you are looking for an exact match to feel sure that you answered correctly.
US has been Metric since Nobody else in the world understands your outdated units. Get with the program and start using exclusively kilos and litres. It helps the rest of us understand, and the calculations are way simpler.
The US is mostly not metric, like Myanmar. Length measurements are especially mixed up here. Welcome to North America. You are commenting using your WordPress. Better swimming experience is not the only reason saltwater has an advantage over freshwater.
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