Buoyancy
Here, ideas of density, pressure build to create a model for buoyancy based on Newton's second law and the simple idea of displacing fluid.. Students will get more practice using already learned representations like free-body diagrams, and will see these in the context of the motion of cells and subcellular elements in fluids.
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