Archimedes and the Crown
Mar. 29th, 2007 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khiemtranSomething that came unbidden to me late last night while waiting for a conference call...
Archimedes solved the puzzle of the golden crown by using its displacement of water to calculate its volume. An identical volume of gold turned out to weigh more than the crown, thus proving that the crown had been debased.
Or that it contained an air cavity.
Archimedes solved the puzzle of the golden crown by using its displacement of water to calculate its volume. An identical volume of gold turned out to weigh more than the crown, thus proving that the crown had been debased.
Or that it contained an air cavity.
