For your science exhibit, you want to make 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 950. [kg/m³]. What must be the density of the oil so that only 40.0% of the wood is submerged in water? Oil wood water

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For your science exhibit, you want to make 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
950. [kg/m³]. What must be the density of the oil so that only 40.0% of the wood is
submerged in water?
Oil
wood
water
Transcribed Image Text:For your science exhibit, you want to make 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 950. [kg/m³]. What must be the density of the oil so that only 40.0% of the wood is submerged in water? Oil wood water
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