Competency #4
Analyze Situations involving Archimedes' or Bernoulli's Principle
Learning Objective a
- a. Define the buoyant force
Question
Write down your answer to the following question:
Which of the following is always a true statement.
- The larger the mass of an object, the larger the buoyant force.
- The larger the submerged volume of an object, the greater the buoyant force.
- For two identically shaped objects placed in water the one that floats has a greater buoyant force than the one that sinks.
- More than one is always true.
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