9TH ICSE PHYSICS
1. What do you understand by the term upthrust of the fluid? Describe an experiment to show
its existence.
2. In what direction and in what point does the buoyant force on a body due to a liquid, act?
3. What is upthrust? State the S.I. unit of upthrust.
4. What is the cause of upthrust? At which point it can be considered to act?
5. What are the conditions for a body to float or sink in a fluid?
6. Describe an experiment to show that a body immersed in a liquid appears lighter than it really is.
7. A bunch of feather and a pebble of same mass are dropped from same height. The bunch of feather falls slower
than pebble. Why?
8. Why is a force needed to keep a block of wood inside water?
9. A metal solid cylinder tied to a thread is hanging from the hook of a spring balance. The cylinder is gradually
immersed into water contained in a jar. What changes do you expect in the readings of spring balance? Explain
your answer.
10. Will a body weigh more in air or in vacuum when weighted with a spring balance? Give a reason for your
answer.
11. How is the upthrust related to the volume of the body submerged in a liquid?
12. A small block of wood is held completely immersed in (i) water, (ii) glycerine and then released. In each case,
what do you observe? Explain the difference in your observation in the two cases.
13. Why does a bucket appear lighter inside water than when it comes outside water?
14. A body held completely immersed inside a liquid experiences two forces: (i) F 1, the force due to gravity and (ii)
F2, the buoyant force. Draw a diagram showing the direction of these forces acting on the body and state
condition when the body will float or sink.
15. A sphere of iron and another wood, both of same radius are placed on the surface of water. State which of the
two will sink? Give reason to your answer.
16. A piece of iron sinks in water but floats in mercury. Why?
17. State Archimedes’ Principle.
18. A body weighs 200 gf in air and 190 gf when completely immersed in water. Calculate:
i. The loss in weight of the body in water,
ii. The upthrust on the body.
19. A piece of iron of density 7.8 × 10 3 kg m-3 and volume 100 cm3 is completely immersed in water (ρ = 1000 kg
m-3). Calculate:
i. The weight of iron piece in air,
ii. The upthrust, and
iii. Its apparent weight in water. (g = 10 m s-2)
20. A metal cube of side 5 cm and density 7.9 g cm-3 is suspended by a thread and is immersed completely in a
liquid of density 1.1 g cm-3. Find: (a) the weight of cube, (b) the upthrust on cube and (c) the tension in
thread.
21. A body of volume 100 cm 3 weighs 5 kgf in air. It is completely immersed in a liquid of density 1.8 × 10 3 kg m-
3
. Find: (i) the upthrust due to liquid and (ii) the weight of the body in liquid.
22. A body weighs 450 gf in air and 310 gf when completely immersed in water. Find:
i. The volume of the body.
ii. The loss in weight of the body, and
iii. The upthrust on the body.
State the assumption made in part (i).
23. You are provided with a hollow iron ball A of volume 15 cm 3 and mass 12 g and a solid iron ball B of mass 12
g. Both are placed on the surface of water contained in a large tub. (a) Find upthrust on each ball. (b) Which
ball will sink? Give reason for your answer. (Density if iron = 8.0 g cm -3)
24. A solid of density 5000 kg m -3 weighs 0.5 kgf in air. It is completely immersed in water of density 1000 kg m -3.
Calculate the apparent weight of the solid in water.
25. A piece of brass weighs 175 gf in air and 150 gf when fully immersed in water. The density of water is 1.0 g
cm3. (i) What is the volume of the brass piece? (ii) Why does the brass piece weigh less in water?
26. A metal cube of edge 5 cm and density 9.0 g cm -3 is suspended by a thread so as to be completely immersed in
a liquid of density 1.2 g cm-3. Find the tension in thread. (Take g =10 m s-2)
27. A block of wood is floating on water with its dimensions 50 cm × 50 cm× 50 cm inside water. Calculate the
buoyant force acting on the block. Take g =9.8 N kg-1.
28. A body of mass 3.5 kg displaces 1000 cm 3 of water when fully immersed inside it. Calculate: (i) the volume of
body, (ii) the upthrust on body and (iii) the apparent weight of body in water.
29. State the principle of floatation. What is apparent weight of a body in floatation?
30. What is centre of gravity? What is centre of buoyancy?
31. State when a body is completely immersed inside the liquid the upthrust F B is maximum or minimum?
32. State what happens when upthrust on a floating body is less than to the weight of the body.
33. State what happen when upthrust on a floating body is exactly equal to the weight of the body.
34. When a piece of wood is suspended from the hook of a spring balance, it reads 70 gf. The wood is now
lowered into water. What reading do you expect on the scale of spring balance?
35. How do you know if an object will sink or float?
36. Write relation between volume of submerged part of a floating body, the densities of liquid and the body.
37. Write applications of the principle of floatation.
38. Why does an iron needle sink but an iron ship float in water?
39. Explain why a ship begins to submerge more as it sails from sea water to river water.
40. An unloaded ship is filled with sand at its bottom? State and explain your observation.
41. Explain the principle of floatation of submarine.
42. Explain the principle of floatation of Iceberg.
43. How icebergs floating in sea are dangerous for ships?
44. Will an egg float in water?
45. Why do balloons filled with helium float upwards?
46. A toy balloon filled with hydrogen rises to the ceiling, but if filled with carbon dioxide sinks to the floor.
Explain your answer.
47. A rubber ball floats on water with its 1/3rd volume outside water. What is the density of rubber?
48. A block of wood of mass 24 kg floats on water. The volume of wood is 0.032 m 3. Find
(a) The volume of block below the surface of water,
(b) The density of wood. (Density of water =1000 kg m-3)
49. A wooden cube of side 10 cm has mass 700g. What part of it remains above the water surface while floating
vertically on the water surface?
50. A piece of wax floats on brine. What fraction of its volume is immersed? Density of wax =0.95 g cm -3, Density
of brine = 1.1 g cm-3.
51. If the density of ice is 0.9 g cm -3, what portion of an iceberg will remain below the surface of water in a sea?
(Density of sea water = 1.1 g cm-3)
52. A piece of wood of uniform cross section and height 15 cm floats vertically with its height 10 cm in water and
12 cm in spirit. Find the density of
(i) Wood and
(ii) Spirit.
53. A wooden block floats in water with two-third of its volume submerged.
(a) Calculate the density of wood.
(b) When the same block is placed on oil, three-quarter of its volume is immersed in oil. Calculate the
density of oil.
54. A block of wood of volume 25 cm3 floats on water with 20 cm3 of its volume immersed. Calculate:
(i) The density, and
(ii) The weight of block of wood.
55. A block of iron floats on mercury. Find the fraction of volume which remains immersed in mercury. (Density
of iron and mercury are 7.8 g cm-3 and 13.6 g cm-3 respectively)
56. An iceberg floats on fresh water with a part of it outside the water surface. Calculate the fraction of the
volume of the iceberg which is below the water surface.
Given: density of ice = 917 kg m3, density of fresh water = 1000 kg m-3.
57. An iceberg floats in a sea (d= 1.01) with 12% of its volume outside the water. Now it sails to another sea (d=
1.09). How many percent of the iceberg would be seen outside this sea?
58. An iceberg (d= 0.92) floats in sea water (d= 1.02). How much percent of volume of iceberg is outside water?
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59. A block of wood floats on water with th of its volume above the water surface. Calculate the density of
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wood.
60. A piece of wood of volume 200 cm3 and density 0.84 g cm-3 floats in a liquid of density 1.05 g cm-3.
(i) What volume of wood will remain above the surface of liquid?
(ii) What force must be exerted on wood to keep it totally submerged?
61. The density of ice is 0.92 g cm-3 and that of sea water is 1.025 g cm -3. Find the total volume of an iceberg
which floats with its volume 800 cm3 above water.
62. The volume of a balloon is 1000 m 3. It is filled with helium of density 0.18 kg m -3. What maximum load can it
lift? Density of air is 1.29 kg m-3.
63. A solid cube of iron (d = 7.8) has length 8 cm. It floats in mercury (d= 13.6). What length of cube is
immersed in mercury? What is the upthrust on the cube?
64. A test tube of cross –sectional area 1.4 cm 2 floats upright in water. The length of tube in side water is 7 cm.
How much the same tube will submerge in oil (d= 0.8)? what is the upthrust of oil on the tube?
65. When 90 g of water is mixed with an equal amount of liquid of density 1.8 g/cm 3, the density of the mixture
becomes 1.5 g /cm3. Calculate the decrease in volume.
66. A solid body weighs 2.1 N in air. Its relative density is 8.4. How much the body weigh if placed (i) in water,
(ii) in a liquid of relative density 1.2?
1. Define the term density.
2. Density is scalar or vector quantity?
3. What are the units of density in (i) C.G.S and (ii) S.I. system
4. Express the relationship between the C.G.S and S.I. units of density.
5. ‘The density of iron is 7800 kg m-3’. What do you understand by this statement?
6. Write the density of water at 4⁰C in S.I. unit.
7. Name a liquid whose density is more than most of the solids.
8. How are the (i) mass, (ii) volume, and (iii) density of metallic piece affected, if at all, with increase in
temperature?
9. Water is heated from 0⁰C to 10⁰C. How does the density of water change with temperature?
10. State how does the density of (i) any solid and (ii) water change with temperature?
11. How does density of solid decreases with increases in temperature?
12. What do you understand by the term relative density of a substance?
13. What is the unit of relative density? Why relative density has no unit?
14. Differentiate between density and relative density of a substance.
15. With the use of Archimedes’ principle, state how you will find relative density of a solid denser than water and
insoluble in it. How will you modify your experiment if the solid is soluble in water?
16. A body weighs W gf in air and W1 gf when it is completely immersed in water. Find: (i) volume of the body, (ii)
upthrust on the body, (iii) relative density of material of the body.
17. Describe an experiment, using Archimedes’ principle, to find relative density of a liquid.
18. A body weighs W1 gf in air and when immersed in a liquid it weighs W 2 gf, while it weighs W3 gf on immersing it
in water. Find: (i) volume of the body (ii) upthrust due to liquid (iii) relative density of the solid and (iv)
relative density of the liquid.
19. Describe an experiment to find the relative density of a solid denser than water and insoluble in it.
20. Describe an experiment to find the relative density of a solid lighter than water and insoluble in it.
SET D - NUMERICALS
1. The density of copper is 8.83 g cm-3. Express it in kg m-3.
2. Density of a substance is 9.45 g cm-3. Write this value in kg m-3.
3. Average density of an iceberg is 920 kg m-3. Write this value in g cm-3.
4. Calculate the volume occupied by 1kg of air. Density of air is 1.3 kg m -3.
5. The relative density of mercury is 13.6. State its density in (i) C.G.S unit, (ii) S.I. unit.
6. The density of iron is 7.8 × 103 kg m-3.What is its relative density?
7. Dimensions of a brick are 30 cm × 10 cm × 2 cm. It weighs 3.25 kg. Calculate the density of the brick material
in S.I. unit.
8. The relative density of silver is 10.8. Find its density.
9. Calculate the mass of a body whose volume is 2 m3 and relative density is 0.52.
10. Calculate the mass of air in a room of dimensions 4.5m × 3.5m × 2.5m if the density of air at N.T.P. is 1.3kgm -3.
11. Relative density of silver is 10.5. What is the density of silver in S.I. unit? What assumption do you make in your
calculations?
12. A piece of stone of mass 113 g sinks to the bottom in water contained in a measuring cylinder and water level
in cylinder rises from 30 ml to 40 ml. Calculate R.D. of stone.
13. A body of volume 100 cm3 weighs 1 kgf in air. Find: (i) its weight in water and (ii) its relative density.
14. A body of mass 70 kg, when completely immersed in water , displaces 20,000 cm 3 of water. Find: (i) the weight
of body in water and (ii) the relative density of material of body.
15. A solid weighs 120 gf in air and 105 gf when it is completely immersed in water. Calculate the relative density
of solid.
16. A solid weighs 32 gf in air and 28.8 gf in water. Find: (i) the volume of solid, (ii) R.D. of solid, and (iii) the
weight of solid in a liquid of density 0.9 g cm-3.
17. A body weighs 20 gf in air and 18.0 gf in water. Calculate relative density of the material of body.
18. A solid weighs 50 gf in air and 44 gf when completely immersed in water. Calculate :
i. The upthrust,
ii. The volume of the solid, and
iii. The relative density of the solid.
19. A solid weighs 30 gf in air and 26 gf when completely immersed in a liquid of relative density 0.8. Find : (i) the
volume of solid and (ii) the relative density of solid.
20. A solid body weighs 2.10 N in air. Its relative density is 8.4. How much will the body weigh if placed
i. In water,
ii. In a liquid of relative density 1.2?
21. A body weighs 82.1 gf in air, 75.5 gf in water and 73.8 gf in a liquid. (a) Find the relative density of the liquid
(b) how much will it weigh if immersed in a liquid of relative density 0.87?
22. A solid weighs 1.5 kgf in air and 0.9 kgf in a liquid of density 1.2 × 10 3 kg m-3. Calculate R.D. of solid.
23. A jeweler claims that he makes ornament of pure gold of relative density 19.3. He sella a bangle weighing 25.25
gf to a person. The clever customer weighs the bangle when immersed in water. With the help of suitable
calculations find out whether the ornament is made of pure gold or not.
24. A piece of iron weighs 44.5 gf in air. If the density of iron is 8.9 × 10 3 kg m-3, find the weight of iron piece when
immersed in water.
25. A piece of stone of mass 15.1 g is first immersed in a liquid and it weighs 10.9 gf. Then on immersing the piece
of stone in water, it weighs 9.7 gf. Calculate:
(a) The weight of the piece of stone in air, (b) The volume of the piece of stone,
(c) The relative density of stone, (d) The relative density of the liquid.
26. A copper wire of length 20 cm has diameter 0.240 cm. What is the volume of the wire? If the density of the
wire is 8.2 g cm-3., find the mass of the wire.
27. Volume of an iceberg is 1000 m3. Density of ice 920 kg m-3. What is the weight of the iceberg?
28. Density of a solid is 6.5 g cm -3. What is its relative density? If the weight of the solid in air is 160 g what would
be its weight in water?
29. A man can lift 60 kg load in air. How much load he can lift in water? Density of load 5.6.
30. A body of volume 100 cm3 weighs 740 gf in air. What is relative density of the body? What is the weight of the
body when completely immersed in water?
31. A body of mass 85 kg when immersed in water displaces 25000 cm 3 of water. Find the relative density of the
body?
32. A cork weighs 4.5 gf in air. A sinker weighs 45 gf in water. Cork and sinker together weigh 20 gf in water. What
is the density and relative density of the cork?
33. A piece of metal of volume 10 cm3 weighs 85 gf in air. What would be its weight in brine of relative density 1.1?
34. A solid of volume 200 cm 3 is completely immersed in a liquid of relative density 0.86. What is the upthrust of
the liquid?
35. A piece of iron weighs 48 g in air and 40 g in water. What is relative density of iron? Find relative density of
that liquid in which this piece weighs 42 g.
