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:
A steel block (3 inches x 3 inches x 3 inches) is dropped into a swimming pool. At what point is the buoyant force acting on the cube greatest- when it is 6 inches below the surface or when it is 24 inches below the surface?
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