The Life of Archimedes

Archimedes when he discover the bouyant force.

Archimedes was a greek mathematician and scientist he was born in 287  BC in the city of syracuse in greece and died in 212 BC in the city of Syracuse, hi live for around 75 before getting kill by a roman soldier after he denied going with him because he was doing a math problem. His father Phidias was an astronomer and they said he was related to the king of Syracuse Hierro II. Archimedes received his formal education in Alexandria, Egypt. He discovered and created  many things like the archimedes screw as a device with a spinning screw-shaped blade inside a cylinder or  the modern day mathematics but his most important discovery was the buoyant force or as we call it The Archimedes Principle, how he discover was like this  a crown for a temple had been made for King Hiero II, who had supplied the pure gold to be used and Archimedes was asked to verify whether any silver had been used by the deceitful goldsmith. Archimedes was expected to solve the problem without damaging the crown One day, while taking a bath, he discerned that the level of the water in the tub increased as he got in, and comprehended that this effect could be used to determine the volume of the crown. As water is incompressible practically, so the crown after submerging would displace an amount of water equal to its own density and it would be possible to calculate the density of the crown if mass of the crown was divided by the volume of water displaced. Archimedes was so excited that he ran on the streets naked , crying out ‘Eureka!’ meaning ’I have found it!’ The test was conducted successfully, concluding that silver had certainly been mixed with the gold.



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