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Question: When a certain object is floating in water on earth, 75% of it is submerged. If water were found on the moon, and the same object was floating in it, how much of it would be submerged?
P.S the gravity on the moon is 1.63m/s^2 and the gravity on earth is 9.8m/s^2
Added 3+ months ago:
By the way the answer is still 75%, I just don't know how to arrive at that answer
This is not calculus, this is Archimedes Principle. All the water above a point pushes down with its weight, and the water pushes up with an equal force. The difference between the force at the top of an object and the force at the bottom is called the buoyant force. The weight of the object is umptydump on the moon, but the weight of the water is also reduced by the same factor, so the object still floats in the same relation as it did on Earth.
