Chapter Objectives:

• Describe what determines the pressure of a liquid at any point.
• Explain what causes a buoyant force on an immersed or submerged object.
• Relate the buoyant force on an immersed or submerged object to the weight of the fluid it displaces.
• Describe what determines whether an object will sink or float in a fluid.
• Given the weight of a floating object, determine the weight of fluid it displaces.
• Describe how Pascal's principle can be applied to increase the force of a fluid on a surface.
  

Chapter Terms:

• pressure
• buoyant force
• Archimedes' principle
• principle of flotation
• Pascal's principle
• surface tension
• capillarity

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Chapter Formulas:

pressure = force/area

liquid pressure = weight density x depth

Chapter Outline Framework:

• Pressure
• Pressure in a Liquid
• Buoyancy
• Archimedes' Principle
• What Makes an Object Sink or Float?
• Flotation
• Pascal's Principle
• Surface Tension
• Capillarity

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