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Does pressure decrease or increase as water increases in depth

Increase

100

______ is defined by the ability or tendency to float in water, air, or some other fluid

Buoyancy

100

What is buoyancy dependent on?

The density of the fluid

200

Did the regular Coke sink or float?

Sink

200

Did the Diet Coke sink or float?

Float

200
True or False: Buoyancy is a vector

True

300

What is the formula for buoyancy?

F= -pgV (fluid density x gravitational constant x fluid volume)

300

Is buoyancy an upward or downward force?

Upward

300

What does positive buoyancy mean?

The object will float at the surface of the fluid.

400

Which of the following doesn't affect buoyancy:

a) Mass of the object 

b) Density of the fluid

c) Volume of the displaced fluid

a) Mass of the object

400

What does it mean to be neutrally buoyant?

The object doesn't float or sink

400

What does negative buoyancy mean?

The object will sink

500

What principle states that the magnitude of the buoyant force on an object is equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces?

Archimedes principle

500

Why did only the Diet Coke Float

It is less dense than the regular Coke due to the lack of sugar content

500

What are the 3 types of buoyancy

neutral, positive, and negative

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