When the herb-man came, she turned him away from the door with a regal courtesy. Tiverton Tales Alice Brown That day she laid aside her regal robes and began her search for Proserpina. Classic Myths Mary Catherine Judd Of the regal army of three hundred men that hastened to Cattraeth, Alas!
Study sets matching term:draft = depth of water needed to float a vessel. The legth of the vessel when measured at the line of flotation. The legth of the vessel when measured at the line of flotation. The greatest width of a vessel. The depth of water required to float a vessel.
There's also an upward force (buoyancy) that's determined by the weight of the water displaced by the object. An object will float if the gravitational (downward) force is less than the buoyancy (upward) force. So, in other words, an object will float if it weighs less than the amount of water it displaces. This explains why a rock will sink while a huge boat will float. The rock is heavy, but it displaces only a little water. It sinks because its weight is greater than the weight of the small amount of water it displaces. A huge boat, on the other hand, will float because, even though it weighs a lot, it displaces a huge amount of water that weighs even more.