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11 Oct 2024 09:20:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Another physical puzzle  
From: Darren New
Date: 2 Jan 2008 11:31:23
Message: <477bbc5b$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Greg M. Johnson <pte### [at] thecommononethatstartswithycom> wrote:
>> That's where I was headed. Does the cannonball displace more
>> water "underwater" than in the boat
> 
>   No, it displaces less when underwater because its volume is "less" than
> its weight, when compared to the water.

Right. And you know that *because* it sinks.  The water level wouldn't 
change if the thing you threw over floated.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.


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