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makes sense, I suppose I was trying to think too much about the question tricking me. Thank you for the help.

I suppose then it wouldn't matter at all. So then even though there is a force pushing the block up keeping it a float, the mass of the block is still being pushed down making the whole thing weight the same as the sum of the individuals..

Homework Statement A block of wood floats in a beaker of water. According to Archimedes' principle, the block experiences, an upward bouyant force. If the beaker wit the water and floating block were weighted, would the measured weight be less than the sum of the weights of the individual...

Homework Statement How much methane, CH4 is must be burned to produce 6.38x10^6j of energy Homework Equations CH4 + 3O2 --> CO2 + 2H2O The Attempt at a Solution This is actually the second part of a pretty long multi part question. I couldn't find out how to figure out the...