Curriculum Connections


Ocean salinity and density:

http://paos.colorado.edu/~toohey/ATOC_L15.html

Explore the relationship between salinity, temperature and density of saltwater at this site.


Buoyant force in liquids:

a href="http://home.a-city.de/walter.fendt/physengl/buoyforce.htm

Use this java applet to explore the buoyancy in a liquid and Archimedes principle.


The physics of underwater diving:

http://www.uncwil.edu/nurc/aquarius/lessons/buoyancy.htm

What keeps this diving scientist from floating to the surface or even sinking to the bottom? Try this experiment making ping-pong divers to learn more about buoyancy.


The neutral buoyancy simulator:

http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/background/facts/nbs.htm

Learn about the NASA Neutral Buoyancy Simulator at this URL. Since the late 1960s, the Marshall Space Flight Center's Neutral Buoyancy Simulator (NBS) has provided NASA investigators and astronauts with the closest simulation of microgravity available on Earth.


Hydrostatic pressure in liquids:

http://home.a-city.de/walter.fendt/physengl/hydrostpr.htm

Students can explore the relationship between depth, density, and pressure in a liquid.


Chem finder:

http://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com/

Use this Internet database to locate physical properties for chemicals including density values.