Originally posted by kopking
i was thinking the other day if the ice melted would the water level really rise????????????
i mean ice takes up more space than water, so if the ice melted,there would a lower water level as water takes less space!!
for examle, fill a glass with ice then put water in it so it full to the top, when all the ice melts the water level will go down!!!
what do you all think?
I didn\'t explain the reason even ICE on water doesn\'t work that way.
Imagine a small tub of water. Now imagine you have two cups of water. Freeze one cup of water. If you added the liquid water to the cup, it would rise by the displacement of 1 cup of water. If you add the frozen cup of water, it will only displace about 2/3rds of a cup of water, and 1/3rd of a cup of displacement will remain above the water. When that ice melts, however, the third of the ice that wasn\'t displacing any water will be part of the water, and the waterlevel will rise accordingly.
