Archimedes made the wonderful observation that when a body is immersed in a liquid

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The apparent loss of weight of the immersed body is greater than the weight of the liquid displaced

It appears to lose some of its weight.

The apparent loss of weight of the immersed body is equal to the weight of the liquid displaced.

Both A and B

answer is D.

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You must have observed that whenever you put an object inside a bucket filled with water, water spills out of the bucket. This displaced water is equal to the weight of the object that you put inside the water. This was observed by Archimedes when he stepped into a bathtub and water spilled out of it. He started shouting his famous words, 'Eureka', and eventually came up with Archimedes' principle. It states that when a body is partly or completely immersed in a fluid, it experiences an upward force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by it.

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