Boats: Buoyancy, Stability, Propulsion.

Duration: 13 min.

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1959

Creator: Coronet Instructional Films

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Uses demonstrations to illustrate Archimedes' principle in explaining why certain objects float in water while others do not, examining the factors which give to boats and ships a stablity which makes them useful to man. Shows the various methods of propulsion, and illustrates how a submarine submerges and rises.

Complete Record: BOATS: BUOYANCY, STABILITY, PROPULSION. Coronet Instructional Films. 13 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. © Coronet Instructional Films, a division of Esquire, Inc.; 31Mar59; MP9625.

Metadata Source:Wikipedia — List of Coronet Films


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