A block of balsa wood placed in one scale pan of an equalarm balance is exactly balanced

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A block of balsa wood placed in one scale pan of an equalarm balance is exactly balanced by a 0.115-kg brass mass in the other scale pan. Find the true mass of the balsa wood if its density is 150 kg/m3. Explain why it is accurate to ignore the buoyancy in air of the brass but not the buoyancy in air of the balsa wood?

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University Physics with Modern Physics

ISBN: 978-0321696861

13th edition

Authors: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, A. Lewis Ford

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