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Update
02-08-2011
Content Type
Lab
Grade Level
Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade, Undergraduate
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PDF
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You’ve heard that oil floats on water. You also know that ice cubes normally float in a glass of water. This is a laboratory activity investigating density, buoyancy, forces, and free body diagrams of floating objects and why some things float. The accompanying simulation can be found here: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/density

Author: Chris Bires