How taking a bath led to Archimedes’ Principle - Mark Salata
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Stories of discovery and invention often begin with a problem that needs solving. Summoned by the king to investigate a suspicious goldsmith, the early Greek mathematician Archimedes stumbles on the principle that would make him famous.
List five objects that you think are more dense than water. How will you test your prediction about the five objects? How will you determine which objects are the most dense?
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