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How would you determine the density of an irregularly shaped rock?

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The...Ch. 14 - An airplane has a mass of 1.60 104 kg, and each...Ch. 14 - A siphon is used to drain water from a tank as...Ch. 14 - The Bernoulli effect can have important...Ch. 14 - A hypodermic syringe contains a medicine with the...Ch. 14 - Decades ago, it was thought that huge herbivorous...Ch. 14 - (a) Calculate the absolute pressure at an ocean...Ch. 14 - In about 1657, Otto von Guericke, inventor of the...Ch. 14 - A spherical aluminum ball of mass 1.26 kg contains...Ch. 14 - A helium-filled balloon (whose envelope has a mass...Ch. 14 - Review. Figure P14.61 shows a valve separating a...Ch. 14 - The true weight of an object can be measured in a...Ch. 14 - Water is forced out of a fire extinguisher by air...Ch. 14 - Review. Assume a certain liquid, with density 1...Ch. 14 - Review. A light spring of constant k = 90.0 N/m is...Ch. 14 - To an order of magnitude, how many helium-filled...Ch. 14 - A 42.0-kg boy uses a solid block of Styrofoam as a...Ch. 14 - A common parameter that can be used to predict...Ch. 14 - Evangelista Torricelli was the first person to...Ch. 14 - Review. With reference to the dam studied in...Ch. 14 - A 1.00-kg beaker containing 2.00 kg of oil...Ch. 14 - A beaker of mass mb containing oil of mass mu and...Ch. 14 - In 1983, the United States began coining the...Ch. 14 - Review. A long, cylindrical rod of radius r is...Ch. 14 - Review. Figure P14.75 shows the essential parts of...Ch. 14 - The spirit-in-glass thermometer, invented in...Ch. 14 - Review. A uniform disk of mass 10.0 kg and radius...Ch. 14 - Review. 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