Floating & Sinking
What does that word mean?
Is this math class?
Stopping pressuring me!
Grab Bag
100
These were the blocks in our Mystery Cube Lab that floated.
What are the three wooden cubes?
100
A unit of measurement called a pascal measures...
What is pressure?
100
The formula for density.
What is mass divided by volume?
100
At higher elevation, like on a mountain, the air pressure is _________ than at sea level.
What is less?
100
By comparing the density of objects you can predict if they will...
What is sink or float?
200
The density of water.
What is 1.0 g/mL or 1.0 g/cm cubed?
200
A material that can easily flow like a gas or liquid is...
What is a fluid?
200
The formula to calculate pressure is...
What is force divided by area?
200
The total pressure under water is the sum of...
What is air pressure and water pressure?
200
Law that explains how the air moves faster above a bird's wings, creates low pressure, and lift is...
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
300
An object that is more dense than the fluid in which it is immersed will...
What is sinking?
300
Pascal's Principle is...
What is it when as force is applied to a confined fluid, and the change in pressure is transmitted equally to all parts of the fluid?
300
Pressure is force divided by area. If the force exerted is 10 N and the are is 2 meters squared. The pressure resulting is...
What is 5 Pascals?
300
Atmospheric or air pressure decreases as elevation...
What is increases?
300
If an object floats, the volume of displaced water is equal to the volume of...
What is the portion of the object that is submerged?
400
Archimedes' Principle states that...
What is... the buoyant force on a submerged object is equal to the weight of the volume of fluid displaced by the object?
400
As the speed of a moving fluid increases, the pressured exerted by the fluid decreases. This is called...
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
400
Find the density of ice. What is the density and will ice float in water? The mass is 18.4 grams and the volume is 20 cm cubed.
What is .92 g/cm cubed? Yes, ice floats in water.
400
A fluid naturally flows from an area of high pressure to an area of _________ __________________.
What is low pressure?
400
As depth in the ocean increases, __________ pressure increases.
What is water pressure?
500
This force acts in the opposite direction of gravity and makes an object feel lighter.
What is the buoyant force?
500
The difference in pressure above and below the wing creates...
What is lift?
500
Find the density of gold and will it float in water? Mass is 154.4 grams and volume is 8 cm cubed.
What is 19.3 grams per cm cubed? Gold will sink in water.
500
The shape of an airplane wing is designed to produce _______, or an _____________ force.
What is lift or an upward force?
500
As the velocity or speed of fluid increases, air pressure ________________. This is _______________ Principle.
What is decreases? What is Bernoulli's Principle?
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