Water Displacement: Floating vs Submerged Objects

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The discussion clarifies the principles of water displacement for floating versus submerged objects. For submerged objects, the volume of water displaced is equivalent to the object's volume. In contrast, floating objects displace a volume of water that weighs the same as the object itself. Understanding the densities of both the object and water is crucial to determine buoyancy, but only the object's weight is necessary to calculate the displaced water volume for floating scenarios.

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difference between the amount of water displaced by a floating vs submerged object??

I'm so confused.

Let's say you have the mass and density of a floating object. How would you find the volume of the water displaced? And how is this different from finding the volume of water displaced by the object if it were submerged?

PLEASE HELP!
 
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For a submerged object, the volume of water displaced is equal to the volume of the object.

For a floating object, it will displace a water weight equal to the object weight.

So you don't need to know the density of the object, except to verify if it is greater than or less than the density of water. That determines if it will float or not. But you will also need to know the density of the water.
 

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