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Archimedes Principle

The document discusses an experiment to verify Archimedes principle by examining buoyant forces and specific gravity of objects submerged in water. Metal cylinders and wooden blocks were used, with the cylinder having a higher density than water and sinking, while the block had lower density than water and floated.

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Archimedes Principle

The document discusses an experiment to verify Archimedes principle by examining buoyant forces and specific gravity of objects submerged in water. Metal cylinders and wooden blocks were used, with the cylinder having a higher density than water and sinking, while the block had lower density than water and floated.

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ARCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE

Objectives

 To determine Archimedes Principle for object of different densities.


 To determine the density and specific gravity of Metal cylinder and Wooden block.

Abstract

From the experimental test of Archimedes Principle, we have concluded that when object is placed in a
fluid it experiences an upward reaction force to its weight from the liquid and this force is equal to the weight of
liquid displaced by the object. As the volume displaced by the wooden block is greater than the metal cylinder
so it experiences more buoyant force and will float while the metal block sinks. The density of wooden block
was less than water while it was greater than water for metallic cylinder.

Introduction

An object will either sink to the bottom of a fluid or float on top of it when it is submerged in any form of fluid.
According to Newton's laws of motion, an item must be under the influence of a net force that is pushing it
upward or downward for this phenomenon to exist. This net force is referred to as the buoyant force in relation
to fluids since it always pushes upward. The Archimedes' principle refers to the buoyant force, which is defined
as the weight of the fluid displaced by an object. There are three scenarios that can happen depending on the
density of the fluid and the object: either the object has a lower density than the fluid and will float, either the
object has a higher density and will sink, or the object has a density equal to the fluid and will remain suspended
anywhere within that fluid.

To verify the idea that the buoyant force equals the weight of the displaced fluid, Archimedes' principle will be
examined in this experiment along with buoyant forces and specific gravity.

Experimental Procedure

1. Mass of the metallic cylinder and wooden block was measured.


2. Filled the graduated cylinder with water and recorded the mass of water.
3. Placed the metallic cylinder and wooden block inside the graduated cylinder and new volume of eater
was recorded.
4. The density and specific gravity of the metal cylinder and wooden block were calculated using the
formulae.
Data and Calculations.

To determine the Archimedes principle we have used two object, metal cylinder and wooden block , the
parameters are given in below table.

Metal Cylinder
Mass 32.5 g
Height 4.19 cm
Diameter 1.9 cm
Volume 11.8798cm^3

Wooden Block
Mass 26.7 g
Height 4.39 cm
Diameter 3.1 cm
Volume 59.8796cm^3

Suspended Metal Cylinder:

a. Mass Reading on Balance = 21.1g = 0.0211kg


b. Apparent Weight = mg=0.206991

Suspended Irregular Shape:

c. Mass Reading on Balance = 0.0573kg


d. Apparent Weight = mg=0.562113
e. Volume = V = 7.019 cm^3

The buoyancy force will be equal to the weight of water displaced by the object i.e submergd
volume.

Density & Specific Gravity:


Density of cylinder = 2776.124177 kg/m^3
Specific gravity of cylinder = 2.776124177
Density of shape = 8162.5 kg/m^3
Specific gravity of shape = 8.1625
Apparent Weight Equation in Lab Manual:

T =( ρ object −ρ fluid ) Vg

Manipulate to find density of object.

T
ρobject = +ρ
Vg fluid

Density of metal cylinder = ρobject = 2773 kg/m^3

Specific Gravity Equation:

ρobject ρobject
SG= =
ρwater 1000 kg/m3

Suspended Wooden Block:

Mass Reading on Balance = 46.6g

Apparent Weight = mg = 4.57146*10^-4

Apparent Weight of Block = -0.308034 N

Density of wooden block = 445 kg/m^3

Specific gravity of block = 0.4756143996

Conclusion

From the experiment the hypothesis regarding Archimedes principle was supported that when an object is
immersed in liquid the weight of the object acts downward and in reaction an upward force act on the object by
the liquid and this buoyant force is equal to the weight of liquid displaced by water. The specific gravity of
wooden block is less than 1 so it will float while for metal cylinder it was 8.1625 so it sinks.

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