Service members and staff from the Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command (NMCFHPC) and Navy Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit Two (NEPMU-2) participated in the annual Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) event, Sept. 20, 2024, Virginia Beach, Virginia. During the event, Maura Comer, an epidemiologist, with the Epidemiology Data Center (EDC) at the NMCFHPC, watches as a student performs an experiment at the Flinkers station. The Flinkers experiment measures the buoyancy of the objects that the students construct and place into the water. According to the Archimedes Principle, an object partially or fully emerged in a fluid will experience a resultant force pushing up on it equal to the weight of the volume of fluid displaced by the object. This vertical force is called the force of buoyancy. The buoyant force on an object is equal to the weight of the volume of water displaced by the object. When the weight of the object submerged is equal to the upward buoyant force exerted by the water, the object is neutrally buoyant, so it doesn’t sink or float, it does what is known as, “flinks.” (Navy photo by Desmond Martin)
| Date Taken: | 09.20.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 10.01.2024 10:13 |
| Photo ID: | 8671193 |
| VIRIN: | 240920-O-NJ594-6899 |
| Resolution: | 4608x3072 |
| Size: | 1.34 MB |
| Location: | VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, US |
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