When a body of mass 240 kg is placed on ...

When a body of mass 240 kg is placed on a ice berg floating in sea water, it is found that the ice berg just sinks. What is the mass of the ice berg ? Take the relative density of ice as 0.9 and that of sea water as 1.02.

Topper's Solved these Questions

Mechanical Properties of fluids
SL ARORA|Exercise Exercise|459 Videos
Mathematical tools
SL ARORA|Exercise Exercise|20 Videos
Mechanical Properties of Solids
SL ARORA|Exercise Example|113 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

When a polar bear jumps on an iceberg, its weight 240 kg.wt is just sufficient to sink the iceberg. What is the mass of the iceberg? (specific gravity of ice is 0.9 and that of sea water is 1.02)

Iceberg floats in sea water with a part of it submerged. The percentage fraction of the ice berg submerged is (density of ice = 0.9 g cm^(-3) , density of sea water = 1.1 g cm^(-3) )

Ice berg floats in water with part of it submerged. What is the fraction of the volume of iceberg suberged, if the density of ice is rho_(l)=0.917g//cm^(3) ?

The tip of the iceberg.The density of ice is 917 kg m^-3 . what fraction of ice lies below water?

If same mass of liquid water and a piece of ice is taken, then why is the density of ice less than that of liquied water ?

A pieceo of ice is floating in water . Find the fraction of volume of he piece of ice outside the water (Given density of ice =900 kg//m^(3) and density of water =1000 kg//m^(3))

A glass of water has an ice cube floating in water. The water level just touches the rim of the glass. Will the water overflow when the ice melts?

A piece of ice is floating in a vessel containing water and inside the ice is a bubble of air. What will be the effect on the level of water, when the ice melts?

Assertion: Ice bergs weighing millions of tons, floats on the surface of sea water.Reason : The density of ice is less than sea water

SL ARORA-Mechanical Properties of fluids-Exercise

A piece of wood of relative density 0.25floats in a pail containing oi...
Text Solution
|
A boat having a length of 3 m and breadth of 2 m is floating on a lake...
Text Solution
|
When a body of mass 240 kg is placed on a ice berg floating in sea wat...
Text Solution
|
A cubical block of wood 10 cm on a side floats at the interface betwee...
Text Solution
|
A Piece of brass (alloy of zinc and copper) weighs 12.9 g in air. When...
Text Solution
|
A piece of iron floats in mercury. Given that the density of iron is 7...
Text Solution
|
A metal cube of 5cm side and relative density 9 is suspended by thread...
Text Solution
|
A cube of side 4cm is just completely immersed liquid A. When it is pu...
Text Solution
|
An iron ball has an air space in it. It weighs 1 kg in air and 0.6 kg ...
Text Solution
|
The relative velocity of two parallel layers of water is 8 cm/sec. If ...
Text Solution
|
A circular metal plate of radius 5 cm, rests on a layer of castor oil ...
Text Solution
|
A metal plate of area 5 cm ^(2) is placed on a 0.5 mm thick castor oi...
Text Solution
|
A metal plate of area 0.02m^(2) is lying on a liquid layer of thickne...
Text Solution
|
In an experiment with poiseuille's apparatus , the following observati...
Text Solution
|
Water at 20^(@) C is escaping from a cistern by ways of a horizontal c...
Text Solution
|
Water is conveyed through a horizontal tube 8 cm in diameter and 4 kil...
Text Solution
|
Alcohol flows through two capillary tubes under a constant pressure he...
Text Solution
|
Show that if two capillaries if radii r(1)and r(2) having lenths l(1)a...
Text Solution
|
There capillaries of length l, 2l and l//2 are connected in series. Th...
Text Solution
|
There capillaries of length l, 2l and l//2 are connected in series. Th...
Text Solution
|