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Volume 49, Issue 1, pp. 4-64

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… And now a suspended Cartesian diver

Hasan Fakhruddin

The Physics Teacher -- January 2011 -- Volume 49, Issue 1, pp. 58

Online Publication Date: Dec 2010

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A Cartesian diver can be held suspended in a liquid in which there is a density gradient decreasing from bottom to the top if the density of the diver is between those of the liquid at the top and the bottom. This article adds to a number of Cartesian diver activities published in TPT.1 In a tall beaker of water, a large amount of sugar is added to the bottom. As the sugar dissolves at the bottom, a density gradient, decreasing from bottom to the top, is set up.
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01.50.My Demonstration experiments and apparatus
64.75.Bc Solubility
01.40.gb Teaching methods and strategies
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