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[Phys-L] Eureka!



Hi!
A questions about the famous story of Archimedes and the King's crown:

What exactly did Archimedes discover when he jumped into and out of the bath tub? Did he discover he could find volume by displacement method and hence the density of the crown or buoyancy or both? If he discovered buoyancy I don't see how he could figure out how to find density using buoyancy in a split second? What's the exact story? Thanks,

~Hasan Fakhruddin
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