Suppose you are finding the weight of a beaker of water, and you have it on the balance and are ready to record the weight. Your partner dips the tip of his or her pen in the water, but does not touch the beaker or the balance. Does the presence of the pen affect the reading on the balance? If so, how? If not, why not?

Yes it would

Explanation:

The submerged portion of the pen would be affected by water buoyancy force which equals to the water weight that it displaces. By Newton's 3rd law, the pen would then make a reaction force on the water itself, which in turn affect the whole reading on the balance.

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d. are made mostly of liquid

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-the general   composition and structure planets includes; they have a thick gas and liquid layer covering a small,solid core. mostly the gases are hydrogen and helium atmosphere and layers of liquid hydrogen. for instance neptune and uranus are examples of the outer planets, they have a core covered by ice and ammonia.

-neptune's atmosphere is hydrogen and helium with a bit of methane so there is no oxygen to breath and the interior is made up of frozen water and ammonia with a rock and iron core. thus, there is no liquid water or solid surface to survive.