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What weight of water is displaced by a 100-ton floating ship? What is the buoyant force that acts on this ship?

What weight of water is displaced by a 100-ton floating ship? What is the buoyant force that acts on this ship?
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What weight of water is displaced by a 100-ton floating ship? What is the buoyant force that acts on this ship?

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An object that weighs 100 tons and is floating is displacing exactly 100 tons of the fluid, and the buoyant force on it is 100 tons. The vertical forces on it are balanced (add up to zero), and that's why it isn't accelerating up or down.
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