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14.1 Exercise 8

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Imagine that in a remote location near the North Pole, a chunk of ice floats in a lake. Next to the lake, a glacier with the same volume as the floating ice sits on land. If both chunks of ice should melt due to rising global temperatures, and the melted ice all goes into the lake, which one would cause the level of the lake to rise the most? Explain.

OpenStax University Physics Volume 1, 14.1 Fluids, Density, and Pressure, exercise 8

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