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    Buoyancy: Science / B .Ənsi, Ɔɪ - Əntsi/ / Bu Jənsi, - Jəntsi/ Force Fluid Weight

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    Buoyancy is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object. Pressure increases with depth in a fluid, resulting in greater pressure and upward force on the bottom of submerged objects. This upward force is proportional to the weight of the fluid that would fill the space occupied by the object. Objects denser than the fluid will tend to sink, while objects lighter than the fluid or shaped appropriately can float due to buoyant force.

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    Buoyancy: Science / B .Ənsi, Ɔɪ - Əntsi/ / Bu Jənsi, - Jəntsi/ Force Fluid Weight

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    Buoyancy is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object. Pressure increases with depth in a fluid, resulting in greater pressure and upward force on the bottom of submerged objects. This upward force is proportional to the weight of the fluid that would fill the space occupied by the object. Objects denser than the fluid will tend to sink, while objects lighter than the fluid or shaped appropriately can float due to buoyant force.

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    Buoyancy is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object. Pressure increases with depth in a fluid, resulting in greater pressure and upward force on the bottom of submerged objects. This upward force is proportional to the weight of the fluid that would fill the space occupied by the object. Objects denser than the fluid will tend to sink, while objects lighter than the fluid or shaped appropriately can float due to buoyant force.

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    Buoyancy is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object. Pressure increases with depth in a fluid, resulting in greater pressure and upward force on the bottom of submerged objects. This upward force is proportional to the weight of the fluid that would fill the space occupied by the object. Objects denser than the fluid will tend to sink, while objects lighter than the fluid or shaped appropriately can float due to buoyant force.

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    Buoyancy

    In science, buoyancy (pronunciation: /b.nsi, -ntsi/[1][2] or /bujnsi, -jntsi/;[1][2]) or upthrust, is an


    upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object. In a column of fluid,
    pressure increases with depth as a result of the weight of the overlying fluid. Thus the pressure at
    the bottom of a column of fluid is greater than at the top of the column. Similarly, the pressure at the
    bottom of an object submerged in a fluid is greater than at the top of the object. This pressure
    difference results in a net upwards force on the object. The magnitude of that force exerted is
    proportional to that pressure difference, and (as explained by Archimedes' principle) is equivalent to
    the weight of the fluid that would otherwise occupy the volume of the object, i.e. the displaced fluid.

    For this reason, an object whose density is greater than that of the fluid in which it is submerged
    tends to sink. If the object is either less dense than the liquid or is shaped appropriately (as in a
    boat), the force can keep the object afloat. This can occur only in a non-inertial reference frame,
    which either has a gravitational field or is accelerating due to a force other than gravity defining a
    "downward" direction. In a situation of fluid statics, the net upward buoyancy force is equal to the
    magnitude of the weight of fluid displaced by the body.[3]

    The center of buoyancy of an object is the centroid of the displaced volume of fluid.

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