Question #3394d
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Explanation:
Let's denote
Buoyancy is the weight of the volume of water being displaced by
partially immersed body; hence, it's directly related to the (total) mass of body. However, the mass of the submerged part of the body is related to the submerged volume by density. So we can reformulate the buoyancy force as the followings:
The buoyancy is expressed as:
From the mass of the submerged part of the body:
However, buoyancy defined this way in not very practical because
The more practical form of buoyancy is Eq.(1)