Have you ever jumped into a pond, well or a pool of water ? If you have, you would have experienced a strange thing that happens. When you are in the water, you feel lighter compared to when you are standing outside. Besides, when you try to push down any floating object ( Tennis ball, empty water bottle ) in a vessel filled with water, you feel the object pushing your hand up and on removing the hand, the object rises up to the surface of the water.
Archimedes Principle
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For Task 1 and 2: (i) Bucket/beaker half filled with water, (ii) Spring balance (iii) objects with the same volume but different weights (v)Salt (v) Digital weighing machine
For Task 3: i) A strong wooden stick, (ii) bucket filled with water, (iii) thread, (iv) wax candle, (v) match box and (vi) 2 stones of unequal (but nearly equal) masses
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