Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!jlg From: jlg@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Floating a battleship ... Message-ID: <17961@lanl.ARPA> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 16:09:59 EST Article-I.D.: lanl.17961 Posted: Thu Dec 13 16:09:59 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 00:38:43 EST References: <4490@tektronix.UUCP> Sender: newsreader@lanl.ARPA Distribution: net Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 5 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.