A wooden block floats in water, and a steel object isattached to the bottom of the block

Chapter 14, Problem 3

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A wooden block floats in water, and a steel object isattached to the bottom of the block by a string as inFigure OQ14.3. If the block remains floating, which of the following statements are valid? (Choose all correctstatements.) (a) The buoyant force on the steelobject is equal to its weight. (b) The buoyant force onthe block is equal to its weight. (c) The tension in thestring is equal to the weight of the steel object. (d) Thetension in the string is less than the weight of the steelobject. (e) The buoyant force on the block is equal tothe volume of water it displaces.

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