Which is heavier, a coin that sinks or a ship that floats?

Question

Which is heavier, a coin that sinks or a ship that floats?

Answer 1

"Heavy" implies weight, not bouyancy.  Thus, a ship will always outweigh a coin.  Crush the boat into a ball, and it will sink faster than the coin.  Re-shape the coin into a bowl, and perhaps it'll float.

Answer 2

The ship is heavier of course. It floats because it displaces the water because of its design.

Answer 3

The ship is heavier, unless of course it is a very big coin or a very small ship.

If you flatten the ship out it will sink too. If you bend the coin just right it will float too.

Answer 4

Weight of Coin = 5gm - 10 gm

Weight of Ship = 1000Kg+

So it is no secret that the ship is heavier.

So the question is why does the ship float. It is because the coin is much more denser than the ship.

Say you could fill air inside a coin as if it were a baloon. So would find that the same coin also floats that is because even though the mass is the same. its volume has increased and so its less dense.

Lesser the density better the chances it can float.

Basically an objects floast if its density is less than the density of water.

So the key is to find the density = MASS / VOLUME

Answer 5

Well, obviously, the ship. Ships are much more heavy than coins.

Now, after you put them in water, it's different but that's another story.

Answer 6

If she weighs the same as a duck, then she must float, ergo, A WITCH!

Answer 7

a ship is HEAVIER.

A ship is buoyant (but heavy).

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Why is this a secret?

Good Luck...

Answer 8

ship that floats