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How do ships float?

How Can Heavy things like ships float on water?

  • I was wondering, and i always have, how can such a heavy thing be on water with out sinking, and some things that are light just goes down the water, please explaine to me, i've got a noob head so explain nice and understandble lol

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    An object that floats "displaces" more water by weight then the object itself weighs. It also keeps that water out by design to let it keep floating.

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The ship is hollow, so its total weight is much less then if the same volume was filled with water. The steel is heavier than water, but the majority is air, and that is much lighter. Every thing will sink in the water until the amount of water it displaces, equals the weight of the object. Then it will stop sinking if the point is reached before it is totally under water. Think about a submarine. It basically raises or sinks, depending on if it has air or water in its ballast tanks. That is because the air weighs less.

Motorhead

ATA367

Search up basic buoyancy.

Garrett

they such great mass, that's why they don't sink.

Ozzie

spreading the weight out

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