Previous Lesson

1. Pressure
What is Pressure??
• Pressure is defined as force per unit
area
• P= F
A
2. Pressure in liquids
• P = hρg
 Try This!!!
Push the ball into the water.
What do you feel???
 Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• Explain Buoyant Force
• Relate buoyant force to the weight of the fluid
displaced
• State Archimedes’ Principle
• Describe applications of Archimedes’ principle
• Solve problems involving Archimedes principle
Why it does not sink?

What happen to the ball?

What happen if we press the ball into the water

and then release it?

What are the forces acting on the floating ball?

 Today’s Activities:
1. Class activity – to investigate the relationship
between the buoyant force and weight of
fluid displaced.

2. Group discussion on Archimedes Principle’s

application.
 What is Buoyant
Force??
Buoyant Force is….
An upward force resulting from an
object being wholly or partially
immersed in a fluid.
The bouyant force is equal to the apparent loss in
weight

Bouyant force = actual weight – apparent weight

The object displaces a volume of water. The bigger

the volume of the object immersed, the bigger the
volume of the liquid displaced.

Volume of liquid displaced = volume of the

submerged part of the object
What is the relationship between the buoyant
force and the weight of fluid displaced??

Liquid
displaced

Buoyant force
 ACTIVITY 1 !!!

To investigate the relationship between the

buoyant force and the weight of fluid
displaced
 Result
Weight of load in air =
Weight of load in water =
Weight of empty beaker =
Bouyant force = Actual weight – Apparent weight
Weight of displaced water =
 ARCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE…
State that,
when an object is wholly or partially
immersed in a fluid, it experiences a buoyant
force equal to the weight of fluid displaced.
Bouyant force, FB

W > FB
Object sinks or moves down to the fluid

W < FB
Object rises up in fluid

W = FB
Object neither sinks nor rises in fluid

Weight, W
By definition, density = mass
volume
m

V

From Archimedes’ principle :

Bouyant force = weight of fluid displace

 mg
 Vg
FB  Vg
 ACTIVITY 2 !!!
Applications of Archimedes Principle…
In group, find..
- The working principle
- How Archimedes Principle
was applied?
 APPLICATIONS
SUBMARINE
 Learning Outcomes…
1. Explain Buoyant Force
The upward force resulting from an object being
wholly or partially immersed in a fluid.

2. Relate buoyant force to the weight of the liquid displaced

BUOYANT FORCE = WEIGHT OF THE LIQUID DISPLACED
(for an object which immersed wholly or partially in fluid)

2. State Archimedes Principle

State that when object is wholly or partially immersed in a fluid,
it experiences a buoyant force equal to the weight of the fluid
displaced.
 Pressure

P=F
A
Pressure in liquids, Gas
P = hρg pressure
Si Unit:
Pascal (Pa)
Atmospheric
pressure

Pascal’s
Principle Archimedes’ Bernoulli’s
Principle Principle

Hydraulic
system Buoyant force
 That’s all for today

Thank you for your attention!!