Question

A brass statue with a mass of 0.40 kg and a density of 8.00×103kg/m3 is suspended from a string. When the statue is completely submerged in an unknown liquid, the string tension is 3.2 N. What is the density of the liquid?

Answer 1

Answer:

ρ = 1469  kg/m³

Explanation:

given,

mass of statue = 0.4 Kg

density of statue = 8 x 10³ kg/m³

tension in the string = 3.2 N

density of the fluid = ?

Volume of the statue

$V = \dfrac{0.4}{8\times 10^3}$

V = 5 x 10⁻⁵ m³

W = ρ g V

W = ρ x 9.8 x 5 x 10⁻⁵

now, tension on the string will be equal to

T = mg - W

3.2 = 0.4 x 9.8 - ρ x 9.8 x 5 x 10⁻⁵

ρ x 9.8 x 5 x 10⁻⁵ = 0.72

ρ = 1469  kg/m³