Fish can adjust their buoyancy with an organ called the swimbladder. The swim bladder is

Chapter 13, Problem 23

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Fish can adjust their buoyancy with an organ called the swimbladder. The swim bladder is a flexible gas-filled sac; the fishcan increase or decrease the amount of gas in the swim bladderso that it stays neutrally buoyant- neither sinking nor floating.Suppose the fish is- neutrally buoyant at some depth and thengoes deeper. What needs to happen to the volume of air in theswim bladder? Will the fish need to add or remove gas from theswim bladder to maintain its neutral buoyancy?

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