Archimedes inventions that are used today
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4 Archimedes Inventions That Can Still Be Seen In Modern Engineering
Of course, Archimedes didn't invent the concept of hydrostatic pressure, or the relationship between fluid pressure, fluid density, fluid depth, and gravity. However, his understanding of how fluid is displaced by an external force became an integral part of many industries millennia later. In simple terms, Archimedes' Principle explains that the weight of a displaced fluid is directly proportional to its volume.
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Archimedes' study of the properties of fluids is still prevalent today and is practically the basis behind the submarine. The ballast tank of a submarine is what dictates the vessel's buoyancy, or the upward force of a fluid (in this case water) against the weight of an object that allows it to stay afloat.
When the tank is filled with water, its buoyancy decreases, causing it to sink, but only to the point where there is an equilibrium of pressure within and surrounding the ship. When t
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Mathematician and inventor Archimedes lived more than 2000 years ago, but his life has had a profound and lasting impact on the world. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, in ancient Greece between the years 290 and 280 B.C., Archimedes is said to have studied in Egypt with successors of Euclid and may have been related to Hieron II, the king of Syracuse. The details of his personal life are somewhat of a mystery, but much of his work was documented through correspondence and a series of books and manuscripts.
Regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Archimedes is credited with a variety of significant accomplishments ranging from the discovery of pi to the foundations for integral calculus. One of his best-known theorems is the Archimedes Principle, which determines the weight of a body immersed in a liquid. Another is his discovery of the relationship between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder.
Archimedes was also a
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Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – 212 BC)
For other uses, see Archimedes (disambiguation).
Archimedes of Syracuse[a] (AR-kim-EE-deez;[2]c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greekmathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.[3] Although few details of his life are known, he is considered one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Regarded as the greatest mathematician of ancient history, and one of the greatest of all time,[4] Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying the concept of the infinitely small and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of geometricaltheorems.[5][6][7] These include the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, the area of an ellipse, the area under a parabola, the volume of a parti of a paraboloid of revolutio