Homework Help: Physics: Buoyancy

Posted by Seth on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 11:36pm.

A crane lifts the 23000 kg steel hull of a ship out of the water. Determine the following.
(a) the tension in the crane's cable when the hull is submerged in the water

Physics: Buoyancy - drwls, Monday, January 28, 2013 at 6:05am
When submerged, the buoyancy force equals the weight of water being lifted with the ship. Therefore the cable tension force is the hull Weight, M g = 2.25*10^5 Newtons

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