Force in Fluids Vocab

Mathematician who discovered that the buoyant force on an object equals the weight of the fluid displaced by the object...

• Archimedes

• Boyles

• Pascal

• Buoyancy

The result of a force distributed over an area

• buoyancy

• buoyant force

• pressure

• lift

Type of substance that assumes the shape of

its container

• Liquid

• Gas

• Fluid

• Solid

Ability of a fluid to exert an upward force on an object within it

• buoyancy

• buoyant force

• Lift

• Floating

SI unit of measure used to express pressure

• pascal

• watt

• Meters

• Newtons

Upward force that keeps an aircraft aloft

• lift

• hydraulic system

• pressure

• buoyancy

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Device that uses pressurized fluids acting on pistons of different sizes to change a force

• buoyant force

• lift

• hydraulic system

• pressure

Force that opposes the weight of an object

• buoyant force

• hydraulic system

• lift

• pressure