Recent content by SpearoWilso

bump...any more help?

Thanks for your input, that is definitely helpful, but I am afraid I still don't understand the process fully, can you clarify what is meant by displacement in this instance? Given that the density of seawater can be expressed as 1.027 kg/liter (for surface seawater) Does this mean, roughly...

Perhaps some background into why I am interested in this question will spark a bit of interest. I am a keen freediver and spearfisherman. When spearfishing, divers generally use a float attatched to a line which connects to the speargun. The reasoning behind this is that if a large fish is...

all of the buoyancy formula's i have found are only used to calculate whether a material will float or not, how can I modify the formula to calculate the amount of weight required to submerge an object?

Homework Statement This is a general question, not something I have been assigned for a subject. I am just wondering how you can calculate the mass a float can support in the ocean. I have no idea how to go about working this out, any help would be greatly appreciated For example, how...