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How do ships float?

How do huge ships float on water?

  • you know those huge ships like boats float in like rivers and oceans? how do they not sink

  • Answer:

    Because they displace more water by weight than what the ship weighs.

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The ship is less DENSE than the water that it is in, Density is mass divided by Volume, the metal that makes the ship is very dense, but the ship itself has open spaces in side that increase volume but not mass, making the entire ship less dense. This is why metal sinks but ships float.

kumst

The reason is that all boats and ships are designed with hollow areas that are filled with air. And while a ship does push some of the water aside as it floats, the large quantities of air inside it make it weigh less than the water it pushed aside. The water below it, however, weighs a great deal more and pushes the ship up, or makes it buoyant.

Fawn Del Maibalz

no matter how large the vessel is, wood and whatever material it's made of are less dense than water and float.

Anonymous

balanced forces.

Danni

They're well made and don't crash into icebergs like some famous huge ships we know.

Ark

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