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This is more of a conceptional question.
Let's say you have 1L of water in a bucket on a weighing scale, which currently reads 50N. If a couple of ice cubes were added, would the weighing scale read 50N + weight of 2 ice cubes?
Side-Notes:
density of the ice < density of water
ice cubes are floating
At first glance, it looks reasonable, but since the floating ice cubes are in equilibrium, wouldn't the buoyancy force cancel out the gravitational pull of the ice cubes, essentially making the ice cubes weightless?
Let's say you have 1L of water in a bucket on a weighing scale, which currently reads 50N. If a couple of ice cubes were added, would the weighing scale read 50N + weight of 2 ice cubes?
Side-Notes:
density of the ice < density of water
ice cubes are floating
At first glance, it looks reasonable, but since the floating ice cubes are in equilibrium, wouldn't the buoyancy force cancel out the gravitational pull of the ice cubes, essentially making the ice cubes weightless?