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Water displacement

GCSE Physics · key term

Water displacement

Definition

A method of finding an object’s volume from the volume of water it pushes aside when fully submerged.

Used by Edexcel and OCR

How each exam board covers it

Edexcel GCSE Physics · 1PH0

Specification 14.3 · Paper 2

Revise: Core Practical: Densities

Edexcel Physics past papers

OCR GCSE Physics B · J259

Paper 1, Paper 2

A way to find the volume of a submerged object from the volume of water it moves aside.
Revise: Density and Volume Measurement

OCR Physics B past papers

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Density
Mass
Tare
Volume

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