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Dear oakie,
There is no specific 'formula' to calculate , how much water a body will displace.
By Arch. principle for a floating body
weight of the body = weight of water displaced.
if you know the weight of the body, you can calculate how much volume it displaces due to its own weight
volume displaced x density of fluid= weight
if you take a box of length=l, breadth=b and depth=d for example, it will displace a volume of l x b x d , when it is fully immersed.
If for unit depth it displaces l x b, you can see that it immerses (volume of water displaced)/(lxb)
If it is a complex body, you have to do some integration to findout the volume it displaces at each value of d.
Hope this will answer your question
There is no specific 'formula' to calculate , how much water a body will displace.
By Arch. principle for a floating body
weight of the body = weight of water displaced.
if you know the weight of the body, you can calculate how much volume it displaces due to its own weight
volume displaced x density of fluid= weight
if you take a box of length=l, breadth=b and depth=d for example, it will displace a volume of l x b x d , when it is fully immersed.
If for unit depth it displaces l x b, you can see that it immerses (volume of water displaced)/(lxb)
If it is a complex body, you have to do some integration to findout the volume it displaces at each value of d.
Hope this will answer your question
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