How do boats float.........I need help for science class.?

Question

Why do people need eyeglasses?

How do batteries work?

just need a general answer for my science class.

Answer 1

Boats float by displacing water.  I forget the reasoning for the other two.

Answer 2

Yeah, it is true that boat floats by displacing water but there is a force between the large volume of water and the boat that keeps on floating, and that's what you call the bouyant force.

Some people need eyeglasses for some medical reason. First reason is to correct refractive errors. In refractive errors, vision is impaired because a shortened or elongated eyeball prevents light rays from focusing sharply on the retina. Blurred vision from refractive error can be corrected with eyeglasses or contact lenses.

A battery is essentially a can full of chemicals that produce electrons. Chemical reactions that produce electrons are called electrochemical reactions.If you look at any battery, you'll notice that it has two terminals.  One terminal is marked (+), or positive, while the other is marked (-), or negative. Electrons collect on the negative terminal of the battery. If you connect a wire between the negative and positive terminals, the electrons will flow from the negative to the positive terminal as fast as they can (and wear out the battery very quickly -- this also tends to be dangerous, especially with large batteries, so it is not something you want to be doing). Normally, you connect some type of load to the battery using the wire. The load might be something like a light bulb, a motor or an electronic circuit like a radio.

Inside the battery itself, a chemical reaction produces the electrons. The speed of electron production by this chemical reaction (the battery's internal resistance) controls how many electrons can flow between the terminals. Electrons flow from the battery into a wire, and must travel from the negative to the positive terminal for the chemical reaction to take place. That is why a battery can sit on a shelf for a year and still have plenty of power -- unless electrons are flowing from the negative to the positive terminal, the chemical reaction does not take place. Once you connect a wire, the reaction starts. The ability to harness this sort of reaction started with the voltaic pile.