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  2. Archimedes - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes principle of buoyancy is given in this work, stated as follows: [12] [85] ... There is a crater on the Moon named Archimedes ) in his honor, as ...

  3. Archimedes' principle - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes' principle (also spelled Archimedes's principle) states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces. [1] Archimedes' principle is a law of physics fundamental to fluid mechanics. It was formulated by Archimedes of ...

  4. The Sand Reckoner - Wikipedia

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    Following Archimedes's estimate of a myriad (10,000) grains of sand in a poppy seed; 64,000 poppy seeds in a dactyl-sphere; the length of a stadium as 10,000 dactyls; and accepting 19mm as the width of a dactyl, the diameter of Archimedes's typical sand grain would be 18.3 μm, which today we would call a grain of silt. Currently, the smallest ...

  5. Buoyancy - Wikipedia

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    Buoyancy (/ ˈ b ɔɪ ən s i, ˈ b uː j ən s i /), [1] [2] or upthrust is a net upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object. In a column of fluid, pressure increases with depth as a result of the weight of the overlying fluid.

  6. On Floating Bodies - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes' investigation of paraboloids was possibly an idealization of the shapes of ships' hulls. Some of the paraboloids float with the base under water and the summit above water, similar to the way that icebergs float. Of Archimedes' works that survive, the second book of On Floating Bodies is considered his most mature work. [6]

  7. Timeline of fluid and continuum mechanics - Wikipedia

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    3rd century BC – Archimedes published On Floating Bodies describing the general principle for buoyancy and hydrostatics. Archimedes develops Archimedes' screw for water extraction. [1] 2nd century BC – The aqueduct Aqua Tepula and Aqua Marcia aqueducts are completed in Rome. [1] Zhang Heng of Han dynasty designs the first known seismoscope ...

  8. Archimedean principle - Wikipedia

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    Archimedean principle may refer to: Archimedes' principle , a principle relating buoyancy with displacement Archimedean property , a mathematical property of numbers and other algebraic structures

  9. The Method of Mechanical Theorems - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes did not admit the method of indivisibles as part of rigorous mathematics, and therefore did not publish his method in the formal treatises that contain the results. In these treatises, he proves the same theorems by exhaustion, finding rigorous upper and lower bounds which both converge to the answer required. Nevertheless, the ...