thank you all for helping me. I think i understand what is going on now, i believe i was confused earlier when i thought air was the determining factor when floating an object, i guess it is not. Another good point a teacher of mine brought up is that if the density of an object is the exact...
so the hollow part of the one object would not matter? i was always taught that no matter what the density of an object, if it was solid it would not float...i guess it makes sense that only density would matter though. I am still wondering something though, if i had a bowling ball weighing 10...
I have been having a discussion with a friend for the past few days, and we are in sort of a stand still on a problem. We would greatly appreciate some input into our discussion.
The question is this: A hollow spherical object weighs ten pounds with a certain density, and size floats in...