If your boat weighs 1200 N, how much water will it displace when it’s floating?
If your boat weighs 1200 N, how much water will it displace when it’s floating motionless at the surface of a lake?
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the principle of Archimedes states: a floating object displaces the amount of liquid that equals its weight. The amount of lake water displaced therefore weighs 1200 N and its mass = (1200/9.81) kg which is also the same as the boat's mass.