1. A wooden cube of side 0.80m and density 700kg/m^3 floats in water of density 1000kg/m^3.
(a) How deep does it go beneath the surface?
(b) What force is needed to push it an extra distance x below the surface?
(c) Show that if the block is pushed down slightly and then released, it will execute SHM. Find the period of oscillation.
2. A hydrometer has a bulb of volume 20cm^3 and a stem of length 40cm and cross-sectional area 0.30cm^2. In water, the hydrometer floats with half the stem immersed. The density of water is 1000kg/m^3.
(a) What is the mass of the hydrometer?
(b) Assume that the scale is marked on the stem only. For what range of densities can it be used?
3. A piece of cork of volume 0.001m^3 and density 300kg/m^3 is kept submerged below the water surface in a tank by means of a thread with its end fixed at the base of the tank. The density of water is 1000kg/m^3. Find the tension in the thread
(a) if the tank is at rest on the ground.
(b) if the tank falls freely.
4. A piece of 2.0kg stone suspended by a thread is completely immersed near the base of a beaker of water. The water level is at a distance of 5.0cm above the base of the beaker. The densities of the stone and water are 3000kg/m^3 and 1000kg/m^3 respectively. Find the extra force on the base of the beaker when the thread is cut off and the stone lies on the bottom of the beaker.