buoyant force

buoyant force

noun Physics.
Also called buoyancy force.

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Buoyant force is always a great word to know.
So is compressibility. Does it mean:
a wave produced by the acceleration of an electric charge and propagated by the periodic variation of intensities
the reciprocal of the bulk modulus, equal to the ratio of the fractional change in volume to the stress applied to a body
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Archimedes' principle

noun Physics.
the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
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