Example: 1

A wooden cylinder of length L and diameter L/2 is floating on water with its axis
vertical. Find the metacentric height if the specific gravity of wood is 0.6
Example 2:

A wooden cylinder of length L and diameter D is to be floated in stable equilibrium on

a liquid keeping its axis vertical. What should be the relation between L and D if the
specific gravity of liquid and that of the wood are 0.8 and 0.6 respectively?
Example 3:

Find the density of a metallic body which floats at the interface of mercury of specific
gravity 13.6 and water such that 40% of its volume is submerged in mercury and
60% in water.

Example 4:

A wooden cone floats in water in the position shown in figure below. Determine
whether the cone is stable or not if the specific gravity of the wood is 0.65.

Example 5:

A hydrometer has a stem of diameter D and a weight W. find the distance on the stem H
between markings corresponding to relative densities of 1.0 and S. As shown in figure (7)

Example 6:

You are floating around a pool drinking a bottle of Cola. If you

accidently drop the bottle into the water (with the lid on), how much of
the Cola would you have had to have drunk for the bottle to float back
up to you? Given that:
The mass of empty glass bottle is 370 gm and the density of glass is
2500 kg/m3. The full (new bottle) contains 350 cm3 of liquid of
specific gravity of 1.15 and a small amount of air on the top of volume
14 cm3. Take the density of air as 1.2 kg/m3

An inverted test tube partially filled with air floats in a plastic

water-filled soft drink bottle as shown in figure. The amount of air
in the tube has been adjusted so that it just floats. The bottle cap
is securely fastened. A slight squeezing of the plastic bottle will
cause the test tube to sink to the bottom of the bottle. Explain
this phenomenon.