[Phys-L] Re: Eureka!

[Scott Goelzer <s.goelzer@COMCAST.NET>]

One of the best jokes ever passed down.
A naked man running through the streets yelling 'I found it'.
Would the neighbors immediately presume a major bit of scientific
insight has been achieved or perhaps something else.

but more useful

<http://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Crown/CrownIntro.html>

Scott




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Scott Goelzer
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On Dec 4, 2005, at 8:42 PM, Fakhruddin, Hasan wrote:

> 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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