Buoyant Forces
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The purpose of this lab is to calculate bouyant forces of objects
submerged in water.
The first step in the lab was to measure the mass of a metal cylinder,
which was found to be 100g, and then to calculated it's weight, which was .98
newtons. Then next step was to measure the apparent weight of t ....
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.... the cup, the cylinder was put into the cup , allowing the water to
spill out and be caught in the first cup. After the water had spilled out it
was weighed, which was 8.3g, converted to kg was .0083g. The weight of this
displaced water in Newtons was 0.081423n.
The percentage error with the buoyant force from step one was calculated
using, this resulted, using .114 for Fb and .0813 for Wdisp, a 28.7% error.
After completing this lab, it has become more apparent as to how to
calculate boyant ....
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