Archimedes Principle

Robert Stephenson
Monday, June 23, 2008
Lab 5
Introduction:

According to Archimedes Principle, the buoyant force on an object wholly or

partially submerged in a fluid is equal to the qeight of the fluid displaced by the object. It
is the purpose of this experiment to demonstrate archmedes principle both in concept and
in magnitude.

DIAGRAM 1.1

DATA 1.1
Weights Mass
1 31.1
2 49.1
3 68.05
4 197

Weights Submerged Mass

1 27.6
2 59
3 34
4 173

Weights Water Displacement

1 4 ml
2 10 ml
3 17 ml
4 22ml

Weights F1 F2 % Diff
1 3.92 3.5 12%
2 9.8 9.9 1.002%
3 16.66 34.05 104%
4 21.56 24 11.31%

CALCULATIONS 1.1

Bouyant Force 1- DensityVg- .4(9.8)= 3.92

Bouyant Force 2- Wd-Ws- 31.1-27.6= 3.5N

CONCLUSIONS 1.1

Buoyant pressure may be understood as the force per unit area on an object due to
the weight of an imaginary column of fluid. The deeper the object is submerged, the
more fluid there is above it to push on its sides and on the fluid immediately below it.
The conditions for equilibrium will determine how far down the object sinks. The
buoyant force is pushing from below the object while the downward force is the object’s
own weight.

ERRORS 1.1

The errors confronted in this experiment were:

1. Measuring equipment
2. Human error, as far as stability, and efficiency
3. Measure of deviation from the mean
4. Weight of object error