Recent content by troyd1

Doc, thanks for the reply. A couple followups: 1. So what is in the bouy, if it is air is pretty irrelevant as the weight of air vs hydrogen of that volume is pretty small. 2. So, with my pulley setup, the weight it could lift is the same regardless of the depth of the buoy? This is not...

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I am sorry, I am really not sure. Possibly, that difference between the weight of the water that the buoy is displacing and the weight of the buoy. I am sure that the pressure at the depth of the buoy would also have a factor in this.

I am wondering what would happen in the following scenarios? I am not looking for exact numbers, but generalized results. Say I have a rigid buoy that has a volumn of 2 gallons. I have a swimming pool or other large body of water. I have the buoy at the bottom of a ten foot deep pool...