A boy gets into a floating boat.
(a) What happens to the boat?
(b) What happens to the weight of water displaced?
(c) What happens to the buoyant force on the boat?

(a). When the boy gets into a floating boat, the boat displaces more volume of water and it sinks a bit deeper.

(b). Weight of the water displaced increases in order to balance the weight of the boy.

(c). The buoyant force will increase as the volume of the displaced water increases.

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Updated on: 10-Oct-2022

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