SS2 EXAMINATION

Welcome to your PHYSICS PRACTICAL QUESTION ON ARCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE FOR SS2(1st term)

Question

Gradually immerse a mass of 500g in a cylinder filled with 200ml of water and record the volume of water when the metal body was fully immersed. Find:

(a) mass of the water displaced, given that the density of water is 1 g/cm³.

(b) upthrust(i.e. weight of the water displaced)

(c) weight of the metal in air

(d) weight of the metal in water.