Archimedes’ Principle relates to density and buoyancy. An orange with peel floats in water due to air pockets, but a peeled orange sinks as it’s denser. Density is an object’s mass relative to its volume. An aircraft carrier floats as it takes up more space than the water it displaces.
There is a very simple experiment you can do at home to demonstrate Archimedes’ Principle, which relates to density and buoyancy. If you take an orange (with the peel intact) and drop it in a bucket of water, it floats. But if you peel the orange and do the same thing, the naked orange will sink to the bottom of the bucket, even though the unpeeled orange is heavier. This is because orange peel contains air pockets which make it less dense. And without the help of those air pockets, the peeled orange will sink, as it’s so much heavier than the volume of water it displaces.
According to Archimedes:
An object’s density refers to how tightly its atoms are packed together. The light skin of an orange gives the fruit buoyancy, much like an air-filled life jacket keeps a human afloat.
The light peel reduces the density of the orange as a whole. Density is the mass of an object relative to its volume.
An aircraft carrier, for example, takes up more space than the volume of water it displaces and therefore floats, according to Archimedes’ principle.
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