Re: What is buoyancy?
From: Sam Wormley (swormley1_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 03/29/05
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:08:29 GMT
James wrote:
> Is buoyancy the net force of all fluid pressures (as vectors)
> perpendicular to all the surface on an object? Or, is buoyancy a true
> calculation of fluid displacement? I am reading various descriptions of
> it as an "up force based on fluid displacement" but that wouldn't make
> nearly as much sense to me.
>
> James
>
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Buoyancy.html
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/BuoyancyForce.html
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/ArchimedesPrinciple.html
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