Category:Archimedes' Principle

This category contains pages concerning Archimedes' Principle:

Let $V$ be a compact body with a piecewise smooth boundary, immersed in an incompressible fluid $F$.

Then the net buoyancy $\mathbf F$ effected upon $V$ by $F$ is equal to the weight of $F$ displaced.

The line of action of $\mathbf F$ passes through the center of gravity of the displaced volume of $F$.

This is often quoted (and probably better considered) as the informal statement:

A body immersed in a fluid experiences a buoyant force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.