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SUMMARY:Rothschild Public Lecture: On Archimedes' Principle - Krzysztof Bu
 rdzy (University of Washington)
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DESCRIPTION:Archimedes' principle says that the upward buoyant force that 
 is exerted on a body submerged in a fluid is equal to the weight of the di
 splaced fluid. There is no mathematical literature on Archimedes' principl
 e exceptfor two articles co-authored by the speaker. This is because the p
 rinciple can be easily derived from standard macroscopic laws of physics r
 egarding pressure. I will show how the principle can be derivedfrom Newton
 ian mechanics applied to "ideal gas" consisting of point particles. Beside
 s the derivation from a "lower level" theory\, the main&nbsp\; novelty is 
 that the macroscopic floating object is allowed to move\, unlike in the tr
 aditional proof.\nThe talk is based on joint research with Jacek Małecki
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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