The Archimedes’s Principle

It states that:

When a body is partially or totally immersed in a fluid, it experiences an upthrust equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.

The law of flotation

It is a special case of the Archimedes’s Principle which states that:

A floating object displaces it’s own weight of the fluid in which it is floating.

Related Topics

• Causes of upthrust
• Explaining upthrust
• Density

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