A cylindrical piece of cork of base area A and height h floats in a liquid of density `rho_(1)`
Channel: Doubtnut
Date: 2020-08-02

A cylindrical piece of cork of base area A and height h floats in a liquid of density `rho_(1)`. The cork is depressed slightly and then released. Show that the cork oscillates up and down simple harmonically with a period  `T=2pisqrt((hrho)/(rho_(1)g))`