Buoyancy Essay: Does An Orange Floats In Water

Introduction

The scope of my research is orange buoyancy. Buoyancy is if something floats or sinks in water or other fluids. Normally we take into perspective the object’s weight and that things which are really light usually float. We never think about how something that is big and heavy like a big ship can float. Although big ships are very heavy they can float because they have a very large volume and take up a lot of space. This particular experiment will mainly focus on whether an orange floats or sinks in water. My prediction was that the orange would float since it weighed less than the orange with the rindpeel on. This experiment will allow people to get to the bottom of why an orange behaves the way it does and also give people an

What happens to the orange? Does it float or does it sink to the bottom of the surface?

• After that, remove the peel further known as the rind from the second orange

• Slowly and carefully without letting any water out, put the second orange in the second glass or bowl. What happens to this orange? Does it float or does it sink to the bottom of the surface?

• Write a summary about the results that you got from this experiment. You will notice that the results are not the same.

Processing of findings

When I first put the orange in the bowl of the water, it floated on the surface, after I removed the peel it sunk to the bottom. The reason being is because when you remove the peel of the orange (and all the air pockets) it increases its density greater than water, making it sink to the bottom. The peel or in other words the rind is full of small air spaces which assist giving it a low density than water making it float on the surface.

Density is the mass of an object in relation to its volume. Objects with a lot of substance in a specific volume have a high density while objects with little substance in a specific volume have a low density.

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