carlc@tektronix.UUCP (Carl Clawson) (12/12/84)
> > How is it that the water can hold up a ship which weighs > > more than the water? -dbell- How is it that my shoes, which only weigh 2 pounds, can support my body, which weighs approximately 190 pounds? :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(
jlg@lanl.ARPA (12/14/84)
A boat floats if its displacement times the density of water is greater than the weight of the boat. The displacement of a boat is the volume of the boat that lies below the water line. The ammount of water that is outside the boat is irrelevant to this calculation.
chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) (12/14/84)
>How is it that my shoes, which only weigh 2 pounds, >can support my body, which weighs approximately 190 pounds? How then can BOZO stand up in inflated shoes? :-) BTW, and for the record. DBell meant his article to be a puzzle to be solved and not a question for which he needed an answer. The non-intutive nature of his question is made obvious by the number of wrong answers which have been posted. chongo <> /\oo/\ -- "Don't blame me, I voted for Mondale!" John Alton 85'