{"id":85454,"date":"2020-02-03T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13483"},"modified":"2020-02-03T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:05:34","slug":"explained-what-is-archimedes-principle-used-in-jharkhand-to-rescue-an-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-archimedes-principle-used-in-jharkhand-to-rescue-an-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What is Archimedes Principle, used in Jharkhand to rescue an elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Authorities applied the Archimedes Principle, or the \u2018upward buoyant force theory\u2019, to bring the elephant out of the well in Gumla district, Jharkhand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Archimedes Principle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&nbsp;Discovered by the ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes.<\/li><li>It refers to the law of <strong>buoyancy<\/strong>&#8211;the ability or tendency of something to float in water or other fluids.<\/li><li>According to the principle, when an object is completely or partially submerged in a fluid, whether gas or liquid, it is acted upon by an upward force (buoyancy) equal to the weight of the fluid it has displaced.<\/li><li>The force acting downward on the object is the weight of the object.<\/li><li>The difference between the two forces is the net force acting on the object.<\/li><li>If the <strong>buoyant force <\/strong>is <strong>more than the weight<\/strong>, the object <strong>rises<\/strong>; if it is <strong>less<\/strong>, the object <strong>sinks<\/strong>.<\/li><li>&nbsp;If the net force is <strong>zero<\/strong>, the object <strong>neither rises nor sinks<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/vDxVkVG4fY2tgo9GeXv3RP_fDwklIoD92vqZP-LtsGFA4n_UEveOZsuRuKVgMO6hfnF8lpR0yXIm8IRspOllZ8UZPU88z3-umZ8Ht5ld10fHQvHr_qZJFahRFhdQYAgOcHjibcvs\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Authorities applied the Archimedes Principle, or the \u2018upward buoyant force theory\u2019, to bring the elephant out of the well in Gumla district, Jharkhand. Facts: Archimedes Principle &nbsp;Discovered by the ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes. It refers to the law of buoyancy&#8211;the ability or tendency of something to float in water or other fluids.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-archimedes-principle-used-in-jharkhand-to-rescue-an-elephant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What is Archimedes Principle, used in Jharkhand to rescue an elephant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2803],"class_list":["post-85454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-archimedes-principle","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704815564},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}