Competency #4
Analyze Situations involving Archimedes' or Bernoulli's Principle
Learning Objectives a & b
- a. Define the buoyant force
- b. Provide a qualitative description of the source of the buoyant force
Question
Write down your answer to the following question:
Which of the following best describes the buoyant force?
- The net upward force that a fluid exerts on a fully or partially immersed object
- The upward force that a fluid exerts on the bottom of a partially immersed object
- The net upward force that is present in water and other liquids (but not in air or other gases)
- The force that causes the pressure to decrease as the velocity of the fluid increases
- The force that is equal to the density for an object that floats
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