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Archimedes discovered that all substances have a unique density - the amount of mass contained in a fixed volume of the substance.

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Archimedes was told by the king to find out if his crown was made of pure gold, calculating the density of the crown, Archimedes found it to be a mix of gold and silver.


Who consulted Archimedes regarding an object that was made of Gold?

Hiero II, the King of Syracuse, wanted Archimedes to determine if gold had been withheld from a crown by the goldsmith commissioned to make it. Without damaging the crown, Archimedes used water displacement to prove that the gold was not all there.


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Which Greek polymath used buoyancy to check whether a gold crown was genuine?

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Who discovered the formula for the circumference of a circle?

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How do you derive formula for volume of a sphere?

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How do Archimedes prove that the king's crown was not solid gold?

Archimedes used water displacement to determine the volume of the crown and compared it to the volume of pure gold of the same weight. If the crown's volume was greater, meaning it had been alloyed with a less dense metal, then the king's crown was not made of solid gold.


the formula that archimeds used to find pi?

Well I believe that Archimedes measured the Circumference of a circle then divided by the diameter. He then realized through simple algebra that if C/d = pi then d*pi = C


Who created the formula for determining the value of pi?

archimedes, pi is the name of the greek letter p, which was used as the shortened version of the greek word perimeter,or circumference of a circle. archimedes was looking for a formula to find the area of a circle, and he required a more accurate value for the constant pi. previously pi had been assigned a very approximate value of 1/3 or 22/7.


If Archimedes had only been able to find a piece of pure gold with a mass one - half that of the crown how could he have determined whether the crown was pure gold?

Archimedes would have used the principle of displacement to compare the volume of the crown to the volume of the pure gold piece. If the volumes were equal, then the crown is pure gold. If the crown had a higher volume, it would mean that it was mixed with another material, making it less dense than pure gold.


Why did Archimedes use the pi symbol?

Archimedes first used the symbol PI because he was the first one to discover it so he wanted to investigate about it.


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