Paper 2, Section I, D
A body of volume lies totally submerged in a motionless fluid of uniform density . Show that the force on the body is given by
where is the pressure in the fluid and is atmospheric pressure. You may use without proof the generalised divergence theorem in the form
Deduce that
where is the vertically upward unit vector. Interpret this result.
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