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" Archimedes stated that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. "
The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World - Page 264
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A College Text-book of Physics

Arthur Lalanne Kimball - 1911 - 710 pages
...iron instead of the liquid. Therefore when any object is wholly or partially immersed in a liquid it is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced liquid, and the center of pressure is where the center of gravity of the submerged portion would be if it were...
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Essentials of Physics

George Arthur Hoadley - 1913 - 554 pages
...law is called the Principle of Archimedes. It may be stated as follows : A body immersed in a liquid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced liquid. This tendency of a liquid to lift a submerged body is called its buoyancy, and depends in amount upon...
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The Aberdeen University Calendar

University of Aberdeen - 1915 - 944 pages
...corresponding to any faulty reading h is h + ^- -• o2 — ft 11. Prove that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid, acting vertically upwards through the centre of gravity of the displaced fluid. Determine the...
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Practical Physics

Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Willard R. Pyle - 1922 - 564 pages
...its bottom is equal to its own weight. But this upward force is alFIG. 17. Proof that a floating body is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced liquid ways equal to the weight of the displaced liquid, that is, to the weight of the column of liquid mbch...
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Inorganic Quantitative Analysis

Harold Athelstane Fales - 1925 - 518 pages
...has the greater volume, because by the principle of Archimedes an object totally immersed in a fluid7 is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. In order to fix this idea with greater definiteness, let us consider the weighing of a liter...
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A Laboratory Manual of Elementary College Physics

Harry Emmons Hammond - 1926 - 132 pages
...hand so that it nearly reaches the bottom. According to Archimedes ' principle, the thermometer is now buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced water and, conversely, the water is pushed down .by an equal force, so some additional weight must...
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Elements of Physics

Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale - 1927 - 634 pages
...body which floats has lost its whole weight (see opposite page). FIG. 21. Proof that a floating body is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced liquid I ir compressors • — "i/ am/ hllastanks THE DETAILS OF A SUBMARINE The submarine, one of the newest...
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Mechanics for Engineer

Le Roy Walter Clark - 1928 - 208 pages
...sin a = w V I FIG. 172 where V is the volume of water displaced by the body. That is, a floating body is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced liquid; or, otherwise stated, a floating body displaces its own weight of the liquid. This is known as Archimedes'...
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A First Course in Physics for Colleges

Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Charles William Edwards - 1928 - 852 pages
...it! I have found it!) 58. Theoretical proof of Archimedes' princiFlG. 56. Proof that an immersed body is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced liquid pie. It is probable that Archimedes, with that faculty which is so common among men of great genius,...
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Elements of Physics

Alexander Wilmer Duff, Henry Townsend Weed - 1928 - 592 pages
...volume of 3 X 5 X 8 cm. = 120 cc, and since 120 cc of water weighs 120 g., it follows that the block is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the displaced water. State Archimedes' principle. Who was Archimedes? How would you prove mathematically that Archimedes'...
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