What you are describing is Archimedes' principal. The reason it holds try is that the object will only float when the force of gravity pulling it down equals the force due to buoyancy. This happens once the body has displaced its mass worth of the fluid.
Make that the buoyant force on an object, and it sounds about right.
that principle would most likely be buoyancy...
That's called "Archimedes' Principle", after the ancient Greek philosopher who discovered it.
Archimedes principle
Archimede
Archimedes Principle states that the buoyant force on an object is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by that object.
Archimedes'
Archimedes Principle states that the buoyant force on a submerged object is equal to the weight of the fluid that is displaced by the object
because bouyant force is the result of the displacement of the fluid an object is in, if a fluis is displaced by the volume of an object the weight of the fluid being displaced is pushing up on the object
buoyant
False, this is Archimedes's Principle.
False, this is Archimedes's Principle.
Archimedes'
Archimedes principle
His principle states that the object is buoyed up by a force that's equal to the weight of the displaced water.
It states that when a body is partially or completely immersed in a fluid, there is an upward force called upthrust acting on the body, which is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
Archimedes's principle states that the buoyant force acting on an object immersed or floating in a fluid equals the weight of the fluid displaced.