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.

"Where would the scale tip? On the left is a steel ball, on the right a ping-pong ball," Reddit user Veiy wrote, posing the conundrum. "I think the scale would raise to the right since the [buoyancy] ...

The film discusses the evolution of navigation and the principles of buoyancy, stability ... of water and the balance between gravitational force and buoyant force, referencing Archimedes ...

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 ...