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Question
When a piece of wood is suspended from the hook of a spring balance, it reads 70 gf. The wood is now lowered into water. What reading do you expect on the scale of spring balance?
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Solution
The reading on the spring balance will be zero because wood floats on water and while floating the apparent weight = 0.
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