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The center of buoyancy is the center of volume of displaced water of the hull (of a vessel). Gravity pulls down on a floating object. The fluid it is floating on pushes it up and it floats (assuming it is bouyant). Both gravity and bouyancy (the two forces at work) will have an effective center. The center of gravity is not required to be lower than the center of bouyancy and in general most ship's center of gravity is above the center of bouyancy. The ship will heel until the Metacenter (which is a function of the actual Waterplane area) is at or above the center of gravity. It might be advantageous to look at the center of gravity with respect to the center of bouyancy in ship hull stability and thereby get a better grasp of the particulars. Use the link below to our friends at Wikipedia and look at some diagrams concerning the stability of ships in terms of where the centers of bouyancy and gravity are in relation to each other.

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Can you change you center of buoyancy?

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What is the relationship between the center of buoyancy and the center of gravity in an object's stability in water?

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How do you calculate center of buoyancy?

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Why does the center of gravity and center of buoyancy always not in same position?

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What is the formula for center of buoyancy of cylinder?

centre of buoyancy = 1/2 (y) centre of gravity = 1/2 (H)


What is the difference between center of mass and center of buoyancy?

Centre of mass is a convinient point where whole mass of the body is supposed to be acting and for bodies of small shape it concides with the geometrical centre. Centre of bouancy is the centre of the immersed portion of the body inside the liquid.


When is the pontoon is naturally stable?

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What is a metacentric diagram?

A metacentric diagram is a vessel (ship) stability diagram that shows the relative positions above and below the metacenter of the center of buoyancy and the center of gravity, respectively. Use the link to the Wikipedia article to view one and see how it looks. Follow along and see how it works. When a vessel floats in water, its center of gravity is below its center of buoyancy. That allows gravity to pull down on buoyancy from below the bouyancy to pull up on gravity from above (if it is permitted to say it that way). If the center of buoyancy slips below the center of gravity, the vessel will roll over. Visualize that. And the closer the two centers are, the less stable the vessel. That is, the more prone to rollover it is. The "sweet spot" between the centers of buoyancy and gravity is the metacenter. It's important in evaluating a ship's stability.


What are the types of buoyancy?

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Why the center of pressure of a submerged body lies below the center of gravity?

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Why is it that maximum stability occurs when the metacenter is above the center of buoyancy?

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