1. A juniper-wood plank measuring 0.33 ft by 1 ft by 12 ft is totally submerged in water.
a. What is its weight?
b. What is the buoyant force acting on it?
c. What is the size and the direction of the net force on it?
2. A rectangular block of ice with dimensions 2 m by 3 m by 0.2 m floats on water. A person weighing 835 N wants to stand on the ice. Would the ice sink below the surface of the water?