Recent content by Tyler Kidd

Problem solved as of this morning. Thanks for the assistance; it actually did help after I got all the information in front of me.

When I try to solve for the mass, I end up with a negative number. Perhaps I'm not using this principle correctly...

Unfortunately, I never wrote down the volume of the boat and it's at a different location. The boat's pretty much a rectangular box, so the volume isn't hard to find.

I have to do this all on calculations alone before I actually conduct the experiment. I only get one shot; apparently this is the "fun" of this kind of lab.

[SOLVED] Aluminum Boats and Buoyancy. All right, here we go. I'm stuck doing a "Lab Practicum" which has this specific task: Build a boat out of aluminum foil alone. Find the maximum about of mass it can hold without tearing, capsizing, or just plain submersing into a bucket of water. The...