Project 1

Buoyancy Experiment: find the Buoyancy force on an object. 1

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Make a measuring jar at home
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1. Take two 500 ml coke bottle.
2. Fill one with water (1)
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3. Transfer exactly half of it to the second one (2)
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4. Now, how much water each has? ml
5. Mark the level of water on each with a marker
6. Empty (2), then pour half of the water from (1) to (2)
7. Now, how much water each has?
8. Mark the levels on both bottles.
9. Repeat the above steps, as many times as possible, so that you get a measuring jar!
10. If you have a medicine measure, you can use it to calibrate your coke
bottle.
11. If you have any type of measuring jar at home (kitchen), you can use it
to measure the volume in ml.
12. Now take one/two NORROX stock cubes (available in your mother’s
kitchen) or any other material at home.
13. Measure its length, width (breadth) and thickness with a ruler. Repeat
this 5 times!
14. Calculate the volume of the cube.
Now the real experiment starts:
15. Take a known volume of water in one of the measuring jars. Note the
reading.
16. Drop the cube/s into the water. Did the cube sink or float?
a. If it is floating? Why?
b. If it is sinking? Why? Explain your answers.
17. Note the new water level reading. Did it increase or decrease? (repeat
this 5 times.)
18. What can you obtain from the initial and final readings?
19. From the volume of the water displaced, you can calculate the mass of
water displaced! (because, you have volume and density of water)
20. The weight of this volume of liquid is called Buoyancy force! Draw a force diagram to show all the
forces acting on the cube! Show the direction of the Resultant force in your force diagram.
21. Try to understand Pascal’s principle and Newton’s second law of motion, and equilibrium of forces!
22. Calculate the hydrostatic pressure at the bottom of your (i) bottle (ii) bottom of the cube and (iii)
top of the cube.
23. Repeat the steps 8 – 16 with a wooden block.
24. Theory: FB = ρVg = weight of the volume of fluid displaced. (Note: the volume of the displaced fluid
is equal to the volume of the object immersed.)
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a. ρ=
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b. P = ρgh
c. PA = Patm + Pgauge
25. A cube of butter or cheese (a piece of candle stick/ coins or anything at home that will float and/or
sink) also can be used to do this experiment. If you know the density of butter, you can calculate the
mass of the cube. The only challenge is to measure the volume of the displaced fluid as accurately as
possible.

You can do this experiment by overflow of a completely filled container and measuring the spilled over liquid
for the volume of the substance immersed!!!

Cube dropped gently.

Container filled with water to the brim.
Container to collect the overflowing (displaced) water.