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Homework Statement #1 If you hold a block of lead and an identical size block of Styrofoam under water, the buoyant force will a) be greater on the lead block. b) be greater on the Styrofoam block. c) be the same on both blocks. d) depend on the depth that each block is held. #2 Salt...

Thanks a lot! Great help with great explanations :) I'm going to use this forum very often from now!

I'm doing the prelab questions which require conceptual questions, not so much of math. The experiment is a typical ballistic pendulum lab - you'd shoot a paintball twoard a pendulum bob, and you measure the height the pendulum bob reaches after collision to calculate the related velocities...