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The net force acting on a cork of mass 10 g floating on water is:

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Important Questions on Mechanical Properties of Fluids

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A block of wood floats in water with (4/5)th of its volume submerged. If the same block just floats in a liquid, the density of liquid in kg m-3 is
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Consider a solid sphere of radius R and mass density ρr=ρ01-r2R2,0<rR. The minimum density of a liquid in which it will float is:
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An ice-berg of density 900 kg m-3 is floating in water of density 1000 kg m-3. The percentage of volume of ice-berg outside the water is 
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The percentage volume of ice-cube outside the water when it is floating in water is ___. (Density of ice is 900 kg m-3, Density of water 1000 kg m-3 )
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A box, when hung from a spring balance shows a reading of 50 kg. If the same box is hung from the same spring balance inside an evacuated chamber, the reading on the scale will be 
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A body of density d1 is counter poised byM g of weights of density d2 in air of density d. Then the true mass of the body is
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An aluminium sphere is dipped into water. Which of the following is true?
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A piece of ice is tied using a string to the bottom of bucket A. The bucket is filled with water with ice completely submerged in it. Another bucket B is filled with water and a piece of ice is released in water. If floats on the surface of water (see Fig.). What would be the impact on the level of water in the two buckets, when ice pieces melt away completely?

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A submarine experiences a pressure of 5.05×106 Pa at a depth of d1 in a sea. When it goes further to a depth of  d2 , it experiences a pressure of  8.08×106 Pa . Then d2-d1 is approximately (density of water =103 kg/m3 and acceleration due to gravity  =10 ms-2 ):
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A cubical block of side 0.5 m floats on water with 30% of its volume under water. What is the maximum weight that can be put on the block without fully submerging it under water?
[Take, density of water  =103 kg/m3 ]
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A vessel contains oil (density =0.8 g cm-3 ) over mercury (density =13.6 g cm-3 ). A homogeneous sphere floats with half of its volume immersed in mercury and the other half in oil. The density of the material of the sphere (in g cm-3) is
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A body P floats in water with half its volume immersed. Another body Q floats in a liquid of density 34th of the density of water with two-third of the volume immersed. The ratio of density of P to that of Q is
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A very large block of ice of the size of a volleyball court and of uniform thickness of 8 m is floating on water. A person standing near its edge wishes to fetch a bucketful of water using a rope. The smallest length of rope required for this is about
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Iceberg floats in water with part of it submerged. What is the fraction of the volume of iceberg submerged if the density of ice is ρi=0.917 g cm-3?
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A block of wood is floating on water at 0°C with volume V0 above water. When the temperature of water increases from 0 to 10°C, the change in the volume of the block that is above water is best described schematically by the graph.
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Two glasses with identical volumes are filled with water to the half-way mark and are kept side by side. Two solid cubes made of the same metal are now dropped into the two glasses and both of them sink in the water. The first glass is completely filled now. The second glass is still 716th empty. The ratio of the surface areas of the cubes dropped into the first and the second glass is
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A piece of ice is floating in a beaker containing water, when the ice melts then the level of water will:
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A wooden block floating in a bucket of water has 45 of its volume submerged. When certain amount of an oil is poured into the bucket, it is found that the block is just under the oil surface with half of its volume under water and half in oil. The density of oil relative to that of water is:
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A machine is blowing spherical soap bubbles of different radii filled with helium gas. It is found that if the bubbles have a radius smaller than 1 cm, then they sink to the floor in still air. Larger bubbles float in the air. Assume that the thickness of the soap film in all bubbles is uniform and equal. Assume that the density of soap solution is the same as that of water 1000 kg m-3. The density of helium inside the bubbles and air are 0.18 kg m-3 & 1.23 kg m-3 , respectively. Then the thickness of the soap film of the bubbles is 1 μm=10-6 m
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A body of density ρ and volume V is lifted through height h in a liquid of density σ<ρ. The increase in potential energy of the body is