Timeline for Why does ice melting not change the water level in a container?
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| Sep 15, 2023 at 18:29 | comment | added | Ruth Lazkoz | Love this answer for a general public, thanks. | |
| Dec 5, 2022 at 23:32 | comment | added | Dewi Morgan | @Cruncher I think I'd expect Archimedes' "principle of flotation" to be intuitively obvious, or at least my own understanding of it doesn't seem to have needed math to arrive at. What am I missing? But given that you don't consider it obvious, and you do consider it a math problem, it suggests I've missed something important. What'm I missing? | |
| Dec 5, 2022 at 14:55 | comment | added | Cruncher | "The volume of water displaced by a buoyant object depends only on the mass of the object, not on its volume or density." This is the point that would need math however. This is far from trivially obvious | |
| Oct 8, 2021 at 18:09 | history | answered | Dewi Morgan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |