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Which part of the iceberg displaces water equal in weight to the buoyant force

User Folashade
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The bit that's below the sea level = most of it = part of the reason why the Titanic was "holed below the water line" and thus doomed to sink. Most of a berg is below the water line.
User UpwardD
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Whoa ! Wait a second. The weight of the displaced water
is ALWAYS equal to the buoyant force.

In the case of a floating object ... whether it's an iceberg or
a dead fly ... the part that's under the surface is the part that's
displacing water.
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