How do ships float?

How do big feight ships float?

  • how do ships float if there made of steal and metal and concrete.

  • Answer:

    the hull of the ship pushes down on the surface of the water with a force equal to the weight of the vessel. the surface of the water pushes back on the vessel with a force equal to the weight of the water that is displaced (the volume of the portion of hull that is below the waterline). The boat is big, but there's a lot of empty space inside. A solid cube of steel and concrete would sink like a rock, but the boat floats.

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they are heavy but balanced so they remain floating evenly so they float.

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Displacement.

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Buoyancy.

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