What (if anything) is the difference between the displacement of a ship and the weight of a ship? If they are the same why are there two different terms?
In: Engineering
If I’m not mistaken (which I can be), the weight is how much it weighs, measured in kilograms or tons (or pounds or whatever) and the displacement is the amount of water it moves when it is put in water. For the same weights, but different shapes, one ship could displace more water than other.
Once again, I might be wrong, but from what I recall, it should be that.
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