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Grade 10General Physics

The weight of a body is 20 gm in air and 16 gm in water .find the desity of the body. (Density of water is 1gm cm-3

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8 Years agoGrade 10
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Profile image of Eshan
8 Years ago
Dear student,

Weight in water=Weight in air-Buoyant force

\implies 16g=20g-V\rho_wg=20g-\dfrac{20}{d}\rho_wg
\implies d=5gmcm^{-3}