Buoyancy "downward" direction. The center of buoyancy of an object is the centroid of the displaced volume of fluid. Archimedes' principle is named after Archimedes of Syracuse, who first discovered this law in 212 B.C. For objects, floating and sunken, and in gases as well as liquids (i.e. a fluid), Archimedes' principle may be stated thus in terms of forces: — with the clarifications that for a sunken object the volume of displaced fluid is the volume of the object, and for a floating object on a liquid, the weight of the displaced liquid is the weight of the object. More
Don Foster, Baron Foster of Bath having people there who will do just that." Don Foster, Baron Foster of Bath Donald Michael Ellison Foster, Baron Foster of Bath, (born 31 March 1947) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented Bath, Somerset as its constituency MP from 1992 until 2015. From October 2013 to May 2015 he held the "ex officio" title of Comptroller of the Household as Liberal Democrat Chief Whip. He was created Baron Foster of Bath, of Bath in the County of Somerset in the 2015 Dissolution Honours, becoming a member of the House of Lords. Foster was born in Preston, Lancashire, and