Chapter 1-Density and Buoyancy

• Buoyancy is the
upward force
exerted on an
object in a liquid
or gaseous fluid.
 Archimedes’ Principle
• It indicates that the upward buoyant
force that is exerted on a body immersed in
a fluid, whether fully or partially submerged, is
equal to the weight of the fluid that the
body displaces.
• Any object, wholly or partially immersed in a
fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the
weight of the fluid displaced by the object.
Archimedes of Syracuse
• Archimedes principle
allows the volume of an
object to be measured by
measuring the volume of
the liquid it displaces after
submerging, and the
buoyancy of an object
immersed in a liquid to be
calculated.
 Sample Problem
• A floating object displaces 0.6 m3 of water.
Calculate the buoyant force on the object and
the weight of the object.
 Sample Problem
• A rectangular block of copper metal weighs
1896 g. The dimensions of the block are 8.4
cm by 5.5 cm by 4.6 cm. From this data, what
is the density of copper?
• A flask that weighs 345.8 g is filled with 225
mL of carbon tetrachloride. The weight of the
flask and carbon tetrachloride is found to be
703.55 g. From this information, calculate the
density of carbon tetrachloride.
• A cylindrical glass tube of length 27.75 cm
and the radius 2.00 cm is filled with argon gas.
The empty tube weighs 188.250 g and the
tube filled with argon weighs 188.870 g. Use
the data to calculate the density of argon gas.
 Effect of Buoyancy in Weighing
• An object weighed in air appears lighter than
its actual mass by an amount equal to the
mass of air that it displaces.
• True mass is the mass measured in vacuum. A
standard mass in a balance is also affected by
buoyancy, so it weighs less in air than in
vacuum.
When you place an object in a fluid there is
only one thing that you can change in the
equation (FB = ρflVdisg) and that’s Vdis.