A wooden block of volume 5.24 3 1024 m3 floats inwater, and a small steel object of mass

Chapter 14, Problem 33

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A wooden block of volume 5.24 3 1024 m3 floats inwater, and a small steel object of mass m is placed ontop of the block. When m 5 0.310 kg, the system is in equilibrium and the top of the wooden block is at thelevel of the water. (a) What is the density of the wood?(b) What happens to the block when the steel object isreplaced by an object whose mass is less than 0.310 kg?(c) What happens to the block when the steel objectis replaced by an object whose mass is greater than0.310 kg?

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