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Suppose I knew the densities of air and helium and I make a helium balloon. If I know the lift (in Newtons), how can I find the volume of the balloon?
Finding balloon volume from lift using Archimedes' principle
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Haftred said:Suppose I knew the densities of air and helium and I make a helium balloon. If I know the lift (in Newtons), how can I find the volume of the balloon?
Aplly Archimede's law correctly.U should be getting the ratio between the lift and the product between the difference of densities and the gravitational acceleration.
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Do you mean Lift/(g(d2 - d1)) That gives a very large answer.
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