hey! Thanks for all the knowledge, I'm starting to get a grasp on the whole thing. I have one more query though...Supposing you 'ejected' a 50 gallon drum from a watertight container 35 feet below the surface of the water. If you were able to place the drum (vertically) in a watertight container...
Thanks for the speedy reply...I found that when i was trying to work out the forces involved, the force that was on the top of the drum underneath the water grew extremely large with depth...for example, a drum in 35 feet of water feels a pressure of roughly 30psi...if the buoyant force doesn't...
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I'm interested on how a 45-gallon drum (filled with air) behaves when submerged in water. I did some calculations and from what I calculated a 45-gallon drum displaces 170kg of water, therefore the upward (buoyant) force on the drum when submerged would be 170kg minus the weight of the...