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Centre of buoyancy is -

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Centre of mass of displaced fluid

Centre of mass of displaced fluid As discussed, the buoyant force is the weight of the displaced fluid acting upwards through the centroid of that displaced volume. Therefore, the centre of buoyancy is indeed the centre of mass of the displaced fluid.

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Important Questions from Buoyancy and Floatation

  1. If two objects are weighed in water and both of them lose the same weight, then the two objects must have identical

  2. A rectangular block is floating in a liquid. The distance of the metacentre from the point of buoyance is equal to the ratio of

  3. A wooden cube of side 0.2 m is floating in the water. The density of wood is 600 kg/m3. Then the volume of water displaced by the wooden block is

  4. The stability of a floating body is governed mainly by the ______.

  5. Buoyant force for a floating body passes through:

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