Archimedes' Principle & Floatation
A tub is filled with water and a wooden cube cm cm cm is placed in the water. The wooden cube is found to float on the water with a part of it submerged in water. When a metal coin is placed on the wooden cube, the submerged part is increased by cm. The mass of the metal coin is ________ gram.
(Take water density as g/cm and density of wood as g/cm)
Numerical answer type. Work it out, then open the answer.
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Answer: 387
- Coin weight = extra upthrust = weight of extra water displaced.
- Extra displaced volume cm.
- Mass of coin g