Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Sara on Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 1:14pm.

One cm of a 10-cm-long rod is made of metal, and the rest is wood. The metal has a density of 5000 kg/m3 and the wood has a density of 500 kg/m3. When the rod is set into pure water, the metal part points downward. How much of the rod is underwater?

Physics - Sara, Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 2:37pm
I got it

the answer is 9.5 cm underwater

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