More Fish in a Bucket
Last week, I left you with a question. We were imagining fish swimming in a container of water. When I was a child, I was told that you could put the container on a scale, and as long as the fish did not touch the sides or bottom; you would only be weighing the water.
We substituted a brick for the fish, and found that if we lowered it into the water, the scale went up enough to equal the weight of the water it displaced. Then we placed it on the bottom, and found that the scale went up to equal the full weight of the brick.
This was the favorite
This was the favorite questions of my high school physics teacher will always remember it: "What if you put the brick on a scale, and then submerged both of them in the bucket of water? How much weight would the scale show for the brick?"
Regards,
Maurice Lacroix
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