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Bramle Thanks. I have always calculated buoyancy based on pressure-area (unless the shortcut, buoyancy factor, is applicable). It's just there are those who would argue until the cows come home that buoyancy is never ever lost. I wanted some backup from this forum that the correct calculation...

Oops. You are right. I have my own camps backwards. I know there shouldn't be. In academia, you are probably right. In industry, people believe what they believe. My issue was what evidence I could show to prove that buoyancy is more complicated than simply the weight of fluid displaced...

DOC AL, thank you for your answers and time. I appreciate it. It has been a few years since I had Physics 101, and I am currently about 150miles offshore, so I can't go to the library. It would be helpful to have a reference - textual from a book, the internet, etc. As you probably well...

I guess I need to explain my motive for this thread. In the oil well drilling industry, there are engineers very adamantly in one camp or the other. Camp #1 thinks the Archimedes' principle is absolute - buoyancy is always there no matter what. Camp #2 thinks more in terms of pressure-area and...

Good answer. But there is the other school that claims that Archimedes' principle is absolute law - buoyancy is buoyancy - always there no matter what. I won't tell you which camp I am in. Are there papers, experiments, etc., that prove one or the other?

Does anyone have any real scientific/experimental data to prove whether Archimedes' principle should be taken literally? Let me explain: As I remember, Archimedes' principle goes something like upthrust is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. Archimedes was saying that the force down...