A block of wood float at the interface between a layer of oil of unknown density Poil, and water (Pwater = 1000 [kg/m³]) inside a container as shown. The density of the wood is Pwood 800 [kg/m³]. What must be the density of the oil so that only 30.0% of the wood is submerged in water?
Fluid Pressure
The term fluid pressure is coined as, the measurement of the force per unit area of a given surface of a closed container. It is a branch of physics that helps to study the properties of fluid under various conditions of force.
Gauge Pressure
Pressure is the physical force acting per unit area on a body; the applied force is perpendicular to the surface of the object per unit area. The air around us at sea level exerts a pressure (atmospheric pressure) of about 14.7 psi but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone as the bodily fluids are constantly pushing outwards with the same force but if one swims down into the ocean a few feet below the surface one can notice the difference, there is increased pressure on the eardrum, this is due to an increase in hydrostatic pressure.
![B. A block of wood float at the interface between a layer of oil
of unknown density Poil, and water (Pwater = 1000 [kg/m³])
inside a container as shown. The density of the wood is
Pwood = 800 [kg/m³]. What must be the density of the oil
so that only 30.0% of the wood is submerged in water?
Oil
wood
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