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  2. Submerged specific gravity - Wikipedia

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    Submerged specific gravity is a dimensionless measure of an object's buoyancy when immersed in a fluid.It can be expressed in terms of the equation = where stands for "submerged specific gravity", is the density of the object, and is the density of the fluid.

  3. Relative density - Wikipedia

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    A United States Navy Aviation boatswain's mate tests the specific gravity of JP-5 fuel. Relative density, also called specific gravity, [1] [2] is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of the density (mass of a unit volume) of a substance to the density of a given reference material.

  4. Specific weight - Wikipedia

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    The specific weight, also known as the unit weight (symbol γ, the Greek letter gamma), is a volume-specific quantity defined as the weight W divided by the volume V of a material: = / Equivalently, it may also be formulated as the product of density, ρ, and gravity acceleration, g: = Its unit of measurement in the International System of Units (SI) is newton per cubic metre (N/m 3), with ...

  5. Hydrostatic weighing - Wikipedia

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    The procedure, pioneered by Behnke, Feen and Welham as means to later quantify the relation between specific gravity and the fat content, [1] is based on Archimedes' principle, which states that: The buoyant force which water exerts on an immersed object is equal to the weight of water that the object displaces.

  6. On Floating Bodies - Wikipedia

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    [5] The book contains a detailed investigation of the stable equilibrium positions of floating right paraboloids of various shapes and relative densities when floating in a fluid of greater specific gravity, according to geometric and hydrostatic variations. It is restricted to the case when the base of the paraboloid lies either entirely above ...

  7. Sediment transport - Wikipedia

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    In order to apply the above formulation, it is necessary to specify the characteristic grain sizes for the sand portion and for the gravel portion of the surface layer, the fractions and of sand and gravel, respectively in the surface layer, the submerged specific gravity of the sediment R and shear velocity associated with skin friction .

  8. Soil mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Specific gravity of solids, = Note that specific weight , conventionally denoted by the symbol γ {\displaystyle \gamma } may be obtained by multiplying the density ( ρ {\displaystyle \rho } ) of a material by the acceleration due to gravity, g {\displaystyle g} .

  9. Category:Physics stubs - Wikipedia

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    Specific mechanical energy; Specific potential energy; Speed prior; Spin geometry; Spin pumping; Station of Extreme Light; Stoneley wave; Streaming vibration current; Submerged specific gravity; Sun valve; Super-Poissonian distribution; Superferromagnetism; Superglass; Surface freezing