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Lapatulllka [165]
3 years ago
14

What is the buoyant force on an object that weighs 340 N and is floating on a lake? if you could explain the answer that would b

e nice.
Physics
1 answer:
Kryger [21]3 years ago
5 0

You just said that the object is "floating".  

(As soon as you said that, a picture of a duck flashed through my mind.  But then I knew right away that the duck could not be an accurate representation of the situation you're describing.  340 N would be <u><em>some duck</em></u> ... about 76 pounds ... and that duck would have been caught and eaten a long time ago. I mean ... what could a 76-pound duck do ?  Could it fly away ?  Could it run away ? ?  Not likely.)

So it's not a duck, but whatever it is, it's just sitting there on the water, floating.  What's important is that it's <u><em>not accelerating</em></u> up or down.  THAT tells us that the vertical forces on it are balanced so that there's NO NET vertical force on it at all.

What are the vertical forces on it ?  There's gravity, pulling it DOWN with a force of 340 N, and there's buoyancy, pushing it UP.  The SUM of those two forces must be <em>zero</em> ... otherwise the object would be accelerating up or down.

It's not.  So (gravity) + (buoyancy) must add up to zero.

The buoyant force on the object is <em>340 N UPward.</em>

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