this A cylindrical platform of diameter of 2.82 m and height 4.1 m floats in saline water (density = 1026 kg/m³) with freeboard of 1.4 m.(e) What is the mass of the displaced water?(f) What is the density of the platform?(g) What is the maximum load that can be placed on the platform given that a minimum freeboard of 0.9 m must be maintained?(h) Given that the platform is loaded with its maximum load and that the centre of gravity of the load is a distance 0.2 m directly above the centre ofthe platform, what is the distance from the bottom of the platform to the centre of gravity of the loaded platform?(i) What is the metacentric height for the loaded platform for this configuration?

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A cylindrical platform of diameter of 2.82 m and height 4.1 m floats in saline water (density = 1026 kg/m³) with freeboard of 1.4 m. (e) What is the mass of the displaced water? (f) What is the density of the platform?

A cylindrical platform of diameter of 2.82 m and height 4.1 m floats in saline water (density = 1026 kg/m³) with freeboard of 1.4 m. (e) What is the mass of the displaced water? (f) What is the density of the platform?

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A cylindrical platform of diameter of 2.82 m and height 4.1 m floats in saline water (density = 1026 kg/m³) with freeboard of 1.4 m.
(e) What is the mass of the displaced water?
(f) What is the density of the platform?
(g) What is the maximum load that can be placed on the platform given that a minimum freeboard of 0.9 m must be maintained?
(h) Given that the platform is loaded with its maximum load and that the centre of gravity of the load is a distance 0.2 m directly above the centre of
the platform, what is the distance from the bottom of the platform to the centre of gravity of the loaded platform?
(i) What is the metacentric height for the loaded platform for this configuration?

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