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    This document presents an analysis of the Cartesian diver experiment. The Cartesian diver is a simple but engaging experiment that demonstrates how an object's density changes with pressure. It floats at atmospheric pressure but sinks when pressure increases. The report describes a simple prototype design using common materials like a water bottle, drinking straw, paper clips, and u-tube. The objective is to observe the relationship between density, pressure, and buoyancy by adding varying weights to the diver.

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    This document presents an analysis of the Cartesian diver experiment. The Cartesian diver is a simple but engaging experiment that demonstrates how an object's density changes with pressure. It floats at atmospheric pressure but sinks when pressure increases. The report describes a simple prototype design using common materials like a water bottle, drinking straw, paper clips, and u-tube. The objective is to observe the relationship between density, pressure, and buoyancy by adding varying weights to the diver.

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    This document presents an analysis of the Cartesian diver experiment. The Cartesian diver is a simple but engaging experiment that demonstrates how an object's density changes with pressure. It floats at atmospheric pressure but sinks when pressure increases. The report describes a simple prototype design using common materials like a water bottle, drinking straw, paper clips, and u-tube. The objective is to observe the relationship between density, pressure, and buoyancy by adding varying weights to the diver.

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    0 INTRODUCTION

    This report presents an analysis on the theory behind the cartesian diver experiment. The Cartesian diver is one of the most popular simple experiments. It is always attractive even if you have seen it many times before. Density is the ratio of an objects mass to its volume. In other words, a dense object is heavy for its size. Water has a density of 1 gram per milliliter (1 g/ml). Objects that are less dense than 1 g/ml float in water, while denser objects sink. A Cartesian diver is an object whose density changes with pressure. A Cartesian diver floats in water at atmospheric pressure, and sinks when the pressure is increases. this simple experiment offers various possibilities for interesting inquiry questions, therefore encouraging discussion and a search for the right answers.

    There are numerous references in the literature and on the web on how to construct a simple Cartesian diver, how to explain its behaviour and how to use it in building students ideas about the observed phenomena. The design presented in this report made use of a simple prototype made from material that one can nd easily. As shown in Figure 1, the design included a water bottle, drinking straw with paper clip and utube connected to the water bottle.

    Figure 1: Brief Description on how the experiment is being set up.

    These paper clips acted as the weight for the diver . Additionally, the design included a tube connection between water bottle and the u-tube. This connection served to provide a channel for the u-tube to measure the pressure changes in the bottle.

    The design had one main objectives. The objective was to find the relationship between density and pressure required to sink the cartesian diver. Included in this objective was the task to find the appropriate weight so that the we would have a variation in the bouyancy force without having it sink to the bottom. Also included in this objective was the task of finding the volume of the drinking straw provided that it is including the volume of the paper clips attached to it. This report presents the procedures for and assessment of adding a series of paper clips to have a variation in the weight of the diver. One drawback of such a diver is that we can only have a small range in the variation of weight until it totally sink at the bottom of the water bottle.

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