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Clay is more dense than water and sinks if you shape it into a small cube or sphere. During the experiment, you used the "buoyancy" effect of the water without realizing it. In other words, the power ...

When you place a block of wood in a pail of water, the block displaces some of the water, and the water level goes up. If you could weigh the water that the wood displaces, you would find that its ...

In this installment of Hot Science we present three questions that may help you to better understand buoyancy. The first is a kind of warm-up question, dealing with general buoyancy principles.