How Do Ships Float? | Things Explained: Buoyancy

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In this episode of Things Explained, we discuss how a tiny paper clip sinks in water but a cargo ship weighing 250,000 tons floats. We also explain what density, buoyancy, and a man named Archimedes have to do with this science phenomenon.

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Date: December 7, 2017
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32 thoughts on “How Do Ships Float? | Things Explained: Buoyancy”

  4. Thank you. One of the only videos whoch explains buoyancy correctly in terms of not just a force but countered by the density of the object put in it. Archimedes was basically explaining the way to calculate the density in comparison to the water displaced makes something buoyant/float. And air in hollow objects/structures makes things less dense and floats more.

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