Question
A steel canister with a volume of 0.34 m3 is lowered to a depth of 800 m in the ocean.
a. What is the pressure on the canister in atmospheres?
b. What is the buoyant force on the canister?
a. What is the pressure on the canister in atmospheres?
b. What is the buoyant force on the canister?
Answers
drwls
a. Po + rho*g*D
rho is the density of sea water.
(Look it up)
D is the depth, 800 m
g is the acceleration of gravity, which you should already know
Po is atmospheric pressure at the surface, about 1.01*10^5 N/m^2
b. buoyant force = (rho)*g*V
V = the canister volume
rho is the density of sea water.
(Look it up)
D is the depth, 800 m
g is the acceleration of gravity, which you should already know
Po is atmospheric pressure at the surface, about 1.01*10^5 N/m^2
b. buoyant force = (rho)*g*V
V = the canister volume