Reveal the secrets of the crown

Famous ancient Greek scientist Archimedes (BC 287 - 212 BC) in the bathroom, Archimedes in the bath. Put a big Banpen bathtub hot water, Archimedes and sat down, suddenly feel like I am floating, and body Fu Dongzhe that splashed water straight from the bowl to overflow. "Most of the water is released." He stood up subconsciously. Basin of the fall-down, his childish way they sat down heavily, the water then rises up, not along the basin spilled over. Suddenly, his eyes light up, out of bathtub, naked rushed to the door, ran up the street, and shouts: "I know it! I know it!" Hey! This old man crazy? Look, he was covered in naked. In fact, Archimedes is not mad, he solved an important secret, a time a little carried away. A few days ago, the Mediterranean island of Sicily, King of the Kingdom of Syracuse, called the goldsmith made a crown of pure gold, very beautiful. Can ministers are whispering: "Who knows, is not pure gold?" The king heard this argument, the called person, said the crown a bit, but the crown and gold to the goldsmith, like weight, can not distinguish which Is there anything else containing metal. Archimedes took the King summoned the wise, let him get hold of get to the bottom. Now, when Archimedes in the bath was an inspiration, he thought, we can 传奇世界私服 immediately find out the secrets of the crown. Archimedes found that when we laugh at him in the side, looked down and realized his naked body and immediately put back into the house at random a set of clothes. Went into the palace. He gave the king made such an experiment - He got one, and Golden Delicious with foreign heavy gold pieces, two of the same size jars and plates, then the crown and the gold were put into a jar filled with water, when water overflowed the jar, each with Then the plate. Were the last to weigh the water as a result, found that the water does not overflow as much. Archimedes said to the king: "Now I can determine, only the crown laced with other metals." King asked: "Why?" "Crown and gold pieces as heavy, but if the crown was pure gold, then they should also be as large size, into the tank, the overflow of water should also be as much. Now, put the crown of the jar overflow of water and more, shows the volume ratio of pure gold, jade crown block large, we can see, the crown was not pure gold. " Busy sent to the king captured a questioning Goldsmiths, really was replaced with the same heavy brass, cast at the Golden Crown of the inner layer. Crown in the adulteration of the secret was thus opened.
Par iqwsf le mardi 24 août 2010

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