The immersed portion of a piece of pure ice floating in water is:
- Aof its volume.
- Bof its volume.
- Cof its volume
- Dof its volume.
Solution & Step-by-step Explanation
According to the law of floatation, the fraction of the volume of a floating body that is submerged in a fluid () is equal to the ratio of the density of the floating body () to the density of the fluid ():
The density of pure ice is approximately and the density of pure water is .
Approximating this value to standard fractional choices yields (since or , which matches the closest standard textbook representation for general physics options).
The density of pure ice is approximately and the density of pure water is .
Approximating this value to standard fractional choices yields (since or , which matches the closest standard textbook representation for general physics options).