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3 Buoyancy and stability Buoy mostlypronounced booe , probably of Germanicorigin. A tethered floating objectused to mark a location in , whales, submarines, balloons and airships all owe their ability to float tobuoyancy, thelifting power of water and air. The understanding of the physics of Buoyancy goes back as faras antiquity and probably sprung from the interest in ships and shipbuilding in classic basic principle is due to Archimedes. His famous Law states that the Buoyancy force on abody is equal and oppositely directed to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces. Beforehis time it was thought that the shape of a body determined whether it would sink or of Syracuse (287 212 BC).
mulated the Law of the Lever, and wrote two volumes on hydro-statics titled On Floating Bodies, containing his Law of Buoyancy. Killed by a Roman soldier. The shape of a floating body and its mass distribution do, however, determine whether it will float stably or capsize. Stability of floating bodies is of vital importance to shipbuilding
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