how is it that a ship can float on water and we try to walk on the water and drown yet the ship is a million t

Answer 1

The truth be told you will not drown ,you will just sink to your natural level (try standing in a swimming pool up to your neck in water now breath in and you will rise up in the water ,breath out and you will go down to your chin again this is displacement your lungs fill with air causing buoyancy, the same as the empty spaces inside a ship)
The plimsoll line around a ship shows the amount of water displacement IE how much more cargo it can take on before it is in danger of sinking

Answer 2

each and every deliver has a protracted pole that reaches to the backside. This long pole has a wheel on the top. The pole runs alongside the backside of the sea with the different end related to the backside of the deliver, as a consequence conserving it up above water. If the pole ever breaks, like in hitting an iceberg or a huge whale, then the deliver will sink. additionally, the deliver has cubicles that are heated with warm air. This provides to the lightness of the deliver, because it is on the verge of floating in air, exceptionally on very huge ships. and that's countless warm air!

Answer 3

There is a phenmenon known as Buoyancy

In physics, buoyancy is the upward force on an object produced by the surrounding fluid (i.e., a liquid or a gas) in which it is fully or partially immersed, due to the pressure difference of the fluid between the top and bottom of the object.

The net upward buoyancy force is equal to the magnitude of the weight of fluid displaced by the body. This force enables the object to float or at least to seem lighter.

Buoyancy is important for many vehicles such as boats, ships, balloons, and airships.

Buoyancy acts against the force of gravity and so makes objects seem lighter with respect to gravity.

See the diagrams at the site. :-)

Answer 4

Ahhh but we can walk on the water. We just have to sink in a bit until the water we displace equals our own weight and we float, just like a million tonne ship. A ship does not float on water, it floats in water.

Answer 5

floating or drowningof an objecton the surface of water depends on the following: If the weight of an object is less than the weight of equal volume of water, it floats, in the opposite case it drowns /sinks.AS the ship is almost empty from inside and its externalvolume is very large, it satisfies the condition for floating.In case of human being,the weight is relatively much smaller but his volume isvery much smaller and satisfies condition for drowning/sinking.
even a small iron needle will sink in water for the same reason.

Answer 6

its coz, the whole floating thing depends on how much water is displaced by the body and the density, so due to the ship's design it is able to displace more water for its size, whereas our body is not able to diplace so much water required to float. And the average density of the ship is less than that of the human body (as it has air also in it).

Answer 7

You need to know Archimedes Principle:-

"The weight of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced."
Archimedes, a classical Greek scientist thought about this problem for a long time. One day when getting into a full bath, the water spilled over the side.He realised he had displaced water. Eureka!!!!

So a ship of say 100,000 tons (weight of metal) may displace water of say 500,000 tons - it floats.
However, when we say of average weight - 70 kg - only displace water of say 69 kgs. We sink!!!!
However, the human organism has a density very close to that of water. So we actually float, but most of us is submerged - swimming.
As an experiment weigh a house brick in air and then weigh it submerged in water. If in air the brick weighs say 3kg then in water it will weigh only say 2kg. it has displaced 1 kg of water.
Now try a block of wood the same size. In air it may weigh say 0.98 kg, but in water it displaces 1 kg of water as volumes are the same, so the block of wood floats.

Answer 8

It's called bouyancy. The ship has open air spaces, and you don't (with the exception of your lungs). If you were to take a hollow you (no insides) you would float too. I know a ship has stuff in it, but the open airspaces make it light enough to float.

Answer 9

You could, if your heels were broader to greater extent and flat. Mind u had no questions either.
........... Yes the forces(Physical, Mechanical)etc., do act there and you can't ignore it.
Had the ship meant to float with it's body horizantally propelling is made to float( for instance,) with it's front side on the top and it's back side as it's bottom........? U will find the ship sinking as u wish.

Answer 10

its to do with the equal and opposite forces, the design of the boat is important
as we have such small surface areas and are quite dense in wieght on our feet (the small area) we are inclined to sink, but when we actually in the water half way, we float because the surface area is a lot more balanced and equal the upward force=the downward force and we float