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It means on board a ship. If your taking water aship, it means that water is coming into your ship. Bad news if your out to sea.
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What 5 letter noun beginning with C describes the sleeping accommodation you get on aship?
Cabin
When aship floats on water?
When vessel floats on a liquid, then it displaces a volume of that liquid, whose mass equals the mass of the vessel. If our vessel is hollow, as a ship or a bowl would be, then there is available some of the volume for the carrying of a load. Archimedes is attributed with this discovery.
Why aship floats on a water?
Because the weight of ship balances the upthrust force , We know that weight always act downward and upthrust force always act upward so we can say that it comes in equillibrium condition . that's why it keeps floating on water..........
When aship crosses date line from west to east?
Everyone on board must turn their clocks and calendars back 24 hours/one day. They get to live the most recent day all over again, so sometimes we say that they have "gained a day".
What jobs need to be done on a ship?
There are many different people who work on a ship. On a cruise line there are sailors, hospitality personnel, and retail personnel. Military ships will have a different type of crew, as will a merchant ship.
What is the name of aShip captains assistant?
Depends on the ship, and on the purpose. For commercial ships, there used to be a "sailing master" who was in charge of how the ship was operated, but not where you were going. The First Officer or First Mate may be the safest answer for that. The Navigator was in charge of the navigation, and for commercial passenger vessels, the Purser was directly responsible to the Captain for the welfare of the passengers and cargo. For modern military vessels, the Executive Officer is the #2 guy in just about everything. When entering or leaving port, the Captain typically yields control to the Harbor Pilot.
What is the reason behind that a ship sinks to a great depth in river water than in sea water?
equiring ships owners to putload lines on ships and to usethem. Plimsoll's idea, knownas the Plimsoll Mark, is stillused all over the world.Have you ever tried fl oating in the ocean?In your bathtub? Which was easier? Youmight have noticed it is easier to fl oat insaltwater than freshwater.It is easier for ships to fl oat in saltwater,too. Two properties of water -- temperatureand salinity (saltiness) -- aff ect how deep aship's hull will fl oat below the water's surface.Warm, salty water is easiest to fl oat in,but not all ships stay in warm, salty wateras they move cargo around the world. Howdo captains know their ships will stay afl oatfrom one port to the next?Imagine you are the captain of a giganticcargo ship. You loaded your ship in asaltwater port in Japan, traveled across theentire Pacifi c Ocean, and are heading to afreshwater port in the San Francisco Bay tounload.As you travel from saltwater to freshwater,your ship's hull will sink deeper into thewater. Your ship could be in danger if theload is too heavy. It could run aground,break a hole in the hull and, and, worstof all, leak fuel and oil into the water. Inthe 1860s, overloading was a big problem.Some ship owners fi lled their ships withmore cargo than they could safely carry.Over and over again these "coffi n ships"sank. Many sailors died and the cargo sankto the bottom of the sea. Some ship ownersdid not care if they lost a ship or two.Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) did care, andwas troubled by this thoughtless disrespectfor sailors' lives. He devised a simple line tomark on the side of a ship to show the lowestlevel it should sit in the water. Ownerscould safely load a ship until it reached thisline, but no further.The idea of load lines dates back to ancientGreece and Rome, but there were no lawsin Plimsoll's time requiring them to be onships. Plimsoll fought for years to pass alaw, the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876,Floator Sink?How do captains know howto safely load their ships?Photo: This is the PlimsollMark on the port (left) sideofBalclutha. The horizontallines show how deep a shipcan be loaded with cargo indifferent waters. If the shipwas in fresh water (FW), shecould be loaded (sinkingdown lower) until the waterwas even with the line belowFW. If she was in salt water,then she could be loaded tothe line below WNA (WinterNorth Atlantic).
Why can't a spacecraft with the speed of light can be made?
No!Except - when the universe fist formed, the universe exploded and moved hundreds of times faster than the speed of lights_________________________ Light speed is impossible for an object that has mass for two basic reasons:1) As your speed grows, your mass also grows, and at the speed of light (c)you, or anything with any mass, would become infinitely massive.2) The more mass you have the more energy needed to accelerate and with aninfinitely massive object you need an infinite amount of energy to increase speed.So c is a universal speed limit which nothing can exceed you can howevermanipulate space time to beat light to a destination without moving very fast orin some cases not moving at all.Now that you understand how that all works, let me tell you something reallymind boggling for you to think about. If you have ever been running and throwna ball in front of you at the same time, you would view the ball traveling a certainspeed away from you, but an observer at rest, watching the ball would believethat the ball is moving fast.Say the runner is running 10 m/s and they throw the ball 5 m/s relative to theirspeed. The real speed of the ball relative to a person at rest would be thecombined vectors of the runner and ball, or 15 m/s, so one would think thissimple math concept would apply to any speed.One might extrapolate this concept to deduce that a ball thrown at 5 m/s from aship traveling 1 m/s less than the speed of light would be traveling 4 m/s fasterthan the speed of light. This is a common misconception with light, but lightmoves at a constant rate. Simply put, nothing can travel over 3.0x108 m/s. Thisis related to the fact that all of the things we use to measure with ... rulers,clocks, scales, etc. ... change in proportion to their speed when they move.Particles called tachyons are said to travel faster than the speed of light, meaningthey can arrive in a place before they depart. Tachyons do not compose any ofthe normal matter that makes up the earth (quarks and leptons -> protons,neutrons, and electrons -> atoms and molecules).Tachyons are theoretical sub atomic particles there is no proof of their existance
