The accessory includes two transparent floating bodies with different frame shapes (hard chine and round bilge). The floating bodies are used together with it and extend this device’s range of experiments.
The design of the floating bodies and the possible experiments are similar to those of it
Learning Objectives And Experiments
- Comparison of two different frame shapes: hard chine and round bilge
Features
- Stability of floating bodies with different frame shapes
Specification
- Determination of the metacentre of 2 floating bodies with different frame shapes: hard chine, and round bilge
- Each floating body fitted with a horizontally movable clamped weight for adjusting the heel
- Each floating body fitted with a vertically movable clamped weight for adjusting the centre of gravity
- Each floating body fitted with a clinometer with scale for displaying the heel
Technical Specification
- Hard chine frame
- Lxwxh: 300x200x140mm
- Mast height: 200mm
- Round bilge frame
- Lxwxh: 300x200x100mm
- Mast height: 240mm
- Horizontal scale: 180mm
- Vertical scale: 240mm
- Height scale of the floating body: 120mm
- Clinometer scale: ±30°
Weights
- Floating body without clamped weights
- Hard chine: approx. 2,9kg
- Round bilge: approx. 2,4kg
- Vertical clamped weight: 575g
- Horizontal clamped weight: 196g
