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Frog in a pod

Student 3057 9 years ago updated by Physics Tutorial Center Staff 9 years ago 1

A from in a hemispherical pod finds that he just floats without sinking in a fluid of density 1.35 g/cm^3. If the from has a mass of 150 g, what is the radius of the pod?

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For a hemisphere, the volume is 2/3 * pi * r^3. If the frog-pod combo isn't sinking, then its density must be less than the density of the fluid. Density of an object can be found by mass/volume.

This gives us the equation m/V < D_fluid

Hope this helps!