How can a ship stay a float with all the tons of steel?

Question

How can a ship stay a float with all the tons of steel?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacemen...

Answer 2

Steel is 7 times heavier then water, if you create a steel box eight times bigger then the steel you use, it swims.

Answer 3

there is air inside which creates buoyancy and keeps it floating.

Answer 4

The ship is lighter than the water it displaces.

Answer 5

Look up Archimedes and this will explain it for you

Answer 6

weight of boat equals less than weight of water it displaces

Answer 7

ship or any object that floats in water displaces volume of water equal to or greater to its weight. This displaced water exerts an uptrust on the floating abject which is equal to its weight in magnitude but opposite in direction.

Answer 8

It has to do with the shape of the hull and the amount of water that it displaces.

http://www.k-sea.com/faq's.htm

This site has a simple explanation on it with some good pictures.

Answer 9

its called boyancy dipshit

Answer 10

A ship is mostly empty space.

When the ship is placed into the water it will sink to a level such that the weight of the water displaced by the hull is the same as the total weight of the ship.

The air in the hull creates the bouyancy.

A 100,000 ton ship will displace 100,000 tons of water.

If the air inside the ship were replaced with water the ship will sink.

Answer 11

It comes down to the weight and shape of the big ship versus the cubic feet of air space it has inside the hull. Even air has weight and mass, so you have to design in the 14 pounds per square inches of weight of the air pressure, and design your ship hull to displace enough water to cover that, and the cargo you're carrying. A cubic foot of water weighs 62+ lbs, whereas a cubic foot of air is only  0.0807 lbs. So if the cubic foot displacement exceeds the amount of weight the ship is, it will float.

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