Terms & Definitions - Module 13
Match the following definitions (or descriptions) to the terms listed below them.
The correct answer is indicated by the "===============".
- Force per unit area.
- Pressure ===============
- Buoyant force
- Archimede's principle
- Principle of flotation
- Pascal's principle
- Surface tension
- Capillarity
- A body immersed in water is pushed upward by this force.
- Pressure
- Buoyant force ===============
- Archimede's principle
- Principle of flotation
- Pascal's principle
- Surface tension
- Capillarity
- If an object is floating on water, the amount of water that is displaced by the object has a weight
that is equal to the weight of the object.
- Pressure
- Buoyant force
- Archimede's principle
- Principle of flotation ===============
- Pascal's principle
- Surface tension
- Capillarity
- The surface of a liquid behaves like a stretched elastic membrane, and tries to contract.
- Pressure
- Buoyant force
- Archimede's principle
- Principle of flotation
- Pascal's principle
- Surface tension ===============
- Capillarity
- Pressure applied to a liquid in a container is transmitted throughout the liquid.
- Pressure
- Buoyant force
- Archimede's principle
- Principle of flotation
- Pascal's principle ===============
- Surface tension
- Capillarity
- If an object is immersed in water, it is buoyed up by a force that is equal to the weight of the water
that it displaces.
- Pressure
- Buoyant force
- Archimede's principle ===============
- Principle of flotation
- Pascal's principle
- Surface tension
- Capillarity
- Liquid rises up in a fine hollow tube. This phenomenon is called...
- Pressure
- Buoyant force
- Archimede's principle
- Principle of flotation
- Pascal's principle
- Surface tension
- Capillarity ===============
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